A January Assisi Festival, St. Anthony Celebrated
(Photo above thanks to Assisi News – www.assisinews.it) You might consider St. Francis of Assisi the patron saint of animals but Italians well-know that this honorific appellation belongs to St. Anthony Abbot, Egyptian hermit monk who died after years of penitence and deprivation at the age of 105 in the Egyptian desert on January 17,…