Saint / folklore
Sant'Antonio Abate
Anthony the Great was a Christian monk from Egypt, revered since his death as a saint. He is distinguished from other saints named Anthony, such as Anthony of Padua, by various epithets: Anthony of Egypt, Anthony the Abbot, Anthony of the Desert, Anthony the Anchorite, Anthony the Hermit, and Anthony of Thebes. For his importance among the Desert Fathers and to all later Christian monasticism, he is also known as the Father of All Monks.
In the book
During the eruption he briefly displaces San Gennaro as the saint charged with holding back Vesuvius’s fire.
Appears in 1 diary entry.
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March 24 1944With the eruption subsiding, Lewis meets Del Giudice, an eccentric folklore writer and expert on San Gennaro and Vesuvius.
briefly replaced San Gennaro as fire-saint
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