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Saint Antonios the Great & Humility

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Icon of Saint Antonios the Great from the website of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, http://www.ec-patr.org/ Icon of Saint Antonios the Great from the website of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, http://www.ec-patr.org/

"I once saw all of the snares of the devil spread out across the earth," said the Great Antonios, "and I became terrified."

"Is it possible that anyone can escape them?" he said, sighing.

He then heard a mysterious voice answering him: "He who is humble of mind."

 

--From The Ancient Fathers of the Desert: Translated Narratives from the Evergetinos on Passions and Perfection in Christ by Archimandrite Chrysostomos, Hellenic College Press: Brookline, MA, 1980

Konstantinos Koutroubas

Konstantinos (Dino) is a seminarian at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Brookline, Massachusetts. He is from Philadelphia and will be going into his 3rd year of studies in September.

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