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St. Anthony the Abbot is represented by the following:

  • bell (exorcises evil spirits)
  • book (devotion to scripture and study)
  • crutch
  • hermit
  • man with a pig at his side
  • pig
  • Saint Anthony's cross (T or tau-shaped)
  • tau cross with a bell on the end
  • very old monk (indicates that he was a monk from the beginning)
  • asperges (exorcises evil spiritus)
  • fire (represents Saint Anthony's Fire)
  • flames (represents Saint Anthony's Fire)
  • with a devil nearby (The Temptations of the world)
  • carried by demons (his defeat of worldly things and temptation)
  • centaur
  • satyr
  • with Saint Paul the Hermit
  • with two lions, who dig Paul's grave
  • baskets
  • making baskets (the traditional source of income for early monks)
  • young man distributing his wealth
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