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St. Anthony-Abbot
Born - c.251
Died - 356 in Egypt

Feastday - 17 January

Statue created - c.1792-1793
Given the impossibility of restoring the first statue, because of its poor condition and bad travertine, it was redone. The original, done between August 1670 and March 1673, was probably by Antonio Francesco Fontana.

Sculptor - Giuseppe Angelini
Angelini, the sculptor and restorer was given the work of redoing the previous statue.

Height - 3.1 m. (10ft 4in) travertine
The patriarch of monasticism is depicted as an old man, wrapped in a habit with a hood. He leans on his knee where he has an open book. The right hand seems to hold a lost stick, an attribute tradional for a hermit. The pig at his feet is a specific attribute for him, an allusion to dirty thoughts he had while fighting demons in an abandoned fort.

- St. Peter's Basilica: The Papal Basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican: Basilica Papale di San Pietro in Vaticano, Rome, Italy. Completed on 18 November 1626 - Photograph by Michael Ghaly for St-Takla.org, September 22, 2014.

- صور كاتدرائية القديس بطرس الرسول، الفاتيكان، روما، إيطاليا. انتهى العمل بها في 18 نوفمبر 1626 م. - تصوير مايكل غالي لموقع الأنبا تكلاهيمانوت، 22 سبتمبر 2014 م.