Talk:Antony the Younger

Younger than whom?
I might guess younger than an earlier Saint Anthony, most likely Anthony the Great. However, R.G. Tanner says:
 * Antony the Younger ( ca. 785-865 A.D. ) was the religious name given by Eustrace the Stylite of Antalya to John Echimos

Maybe that's just poor phrasing by Tanner, but it suggests Eustrace named him not merely "Antony" but in fact "Antony the Younger". It seems more likely to me that Eustrace would name him "Antony the Younger" to distinguish him from a slightly older living Antony in the neighbourhood rather than a hero from 400 years before. It would be presumptuous (or perhaps prophetic?) for Eustrace to assume the newly tonsured Antony would go on to sainthood and thus need to be distinguished centuries later from Anthony the Great. jnestorius(talk) 22:14, 11 November 2020 (UTC)