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The Life of Antony

47.

And when at last the persecution ceased, and the blessed Bishop Peter ¹ had borne his testimony, Antony departed, and again withdrew to his cell, and was there daily a martyr to his conscience, and contending in the conflicts of faith. And his discipline was much severer, for he was ever fasting, and he had a garment of hair on the inside, while the outside was skin, which he kept until his end. And he neither bathed his body with water to free himself from filth, nor did he ever wash his feet, nor even endure so much as to put them into water, unless compelled by necessity. Nor did any one even see him unclothed, nor his body naked at all, except after his death, when he was buried.

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La vie de sainte Antoine

Chapitre XLVII

Cette cruelle persécution, durant laquelle le bienheureux patriarche d’Alexandrie endura le martyre, ayant cessé, Antoine retourna dans son monastère où sa foi et sa piété lui acquéraient continuellement le mérite du martyre qu’il faisait souffrir à son corps par l’austérité de sa vie. Car il jeûnait toujours, il portait sur sa peau une tunique de poil de chèvre, et par-dessus celle-là une autre de cuir qu’il ne quitta point jusqu’à la mort. Il ne lavait jamais son corps, ni ne nettoyait jamais ses pieds, à moins que la nécessité ne le contraigne à passer de l’eau ; et on ne l’a jamais vu nu, que lorsqu’on l’ensevelit.