Vat.sir.369

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit:
One true God. We write the
lives of the holy fathers.
First, the story of father
Anthony founder of monasticism, the chief of the mourners,
and his wonderful conduct, and how
he was victorious in the struggle against passions,
and how he conquered the adversary,
and how he ascended to the heights
of conduct, and how he was filled
with all good things, and became
a father to all monks, and a teacher
to all solitaries hermits/ascetics, and how
he was called the star of the desert,
and how he was illuminated by the light
of knowledge, and how he was filled
with the Holy Spirit, and how
our Lord appeared to him in the form
of light, and how there appeared
to him demons in various forms,
and how the angel of the Lord appeared
to him, and how there appeared
to him father Paul the Anchorite the elder, and how
there appeared to him father Macarius,
and how there appeared to him father
Amun, and how there appeared to him
father Elijah, and how there appeared
to him father John, and how there appeared
to him father Arsenius,
and how there appeared to him father
Agathon, and how there appeared
to him father Sisoes, and how there appeared
to him father Pimen,
and how there appeared to him father
Isaac, and how there appeared
to him father Joseph, and how there appeared
to him father Nilus.

And how there appeared to him father
Ephrem, and how there appeared
to him father Basil, and how there appeared
to him father Gregory,
and how there appeared to him father
Evagrius, and how there appeared
to him father Theodore,
and how there appeared to him father
Ignatius, and how there appeared
to him father Polycarp,
and how there appeared to him father
Dionysius, and how there appeared
to him father Athanasius,
and how there appeared to him father
Cyril, and how there appeared
to him father Surianus,
and how there appeared to him father
Philoxenus, and how there appeared
to him father Severus,
and how there appeared to him father
Jacob, and how there appeared
to him father Isaac, and how there appeared
to him father Ephrem,
and how there appeared to him father
Isidore, and how there appeared
to him father Pimen,
and how there appeared to him father
Agathon, and how there appeared
to him father Sisoes, and how there appeared
to him father John,
and how there appeared to him father
Arsenius, and how there appeared
to him father Macarius,
and how there appeared to him father
Amun, and how there appeared
to him father Elijah, and how there appeared
to him father Paul,
and how there appeared to him father
Anthony, and how there appeared
to him father Pachomius.