On January 17, in the city of Nazareth, a mass was celebrated in memory of Saint Anthony. The Egyptian saint of the fourth century was a pioneer of the monastic life.
On January 17, on the feast of St. Anthony the Great, in Nazareth, in a seventeenth century church dedicated to him, a solemn Mass was celebrated by Maronite Bishop H.E. Moussa El-Hage and by many faithful.