Today, Friday (17.1.2025), according to the honor of the memory of Antony the Great, Saint Theodosius the Great devout king, Neomartyr George of Ioannina. The names celebrated today, according to the celebration calendar, are as follows: DEPENDENCE Antony, Antonis, Tone, Nacos, Antonas, Antonakos, Tony, Antonia, Antonoula, Tonya Theodosius, Theodosis, Dossios, Dossios, Theo * Agios Antonios the Great The Great Antony was born in 251 AD in Upper Egypt to wealthy and virtuous parents, whom he lost at a young age. But he focuses his attention on the secret theory of desert monks and the care of his little sister. He quickly decides to leave the worlds and departs for the desert, after first settling his younger sister and distributing the great paternal estate to the poor in his area. In the wilderness he played his soul and shook his passions by reaching the heights of exercise so that the soul of the saint could go out of his body while still alive. He becomes the model of ascetics. Many of them arrived in the desert to hear and consult him. He delivered his happy soul to the rewarder God aged 105. Although, as Great Athanasius says, one of the last wishes of Osios Antonios was to keep the place of his burial hidden, the monks alone nearby told him that they possessed his sacred relic, which on Justinian (561 AD), was deposited in the Church of St. John the Baptist in Alexandria and from there later, in 635 AD, was transferred to Constantinople. *There are other dates that celebrate this name.
Celebration: Today 17 January 2025 Antonis celebrates
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in Greece