Anthony

Venerable Anthony is one of the three founders of Vatopedi Monastery on Mount Athos, with Athanasius and Nicholas. According to holy tradition, the three were noble officials of Adrianople who, in the middle of the tenth century, while the Great Lavra was being built, came to the neighbourhood of its founder, Saint Athanasius the Athonite, who also drew up the typikon of the new monastery.

Obeying the advice of the great saint, they restored and rebuilt a monastery that had been laid waste by pirates. The Church commemorates all three on 17 December (new style).