2011-06-27T15:28:49-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/hermits/ http://chitorch.org/index.php/chm/third-century/antony/ 2011-06-27T15:28:49-05:00 Modern Christian hermits still look to Antony for inspiration, as did the entire Middle Ages, but today we hardly know him. What did the illiterate recluse, known as Antony of the Desert, do to earn such adulation? From Christian History magazine.