Английский Этимологический словарь - anthony

- L. Antonius, name of a Roman gens (with unhistoric -h-); St. Anthony (4c.), Egyptian hermit, patron saint of swineherds, to whom one of each litter was usually vowed, hence Anthony for "smallest pig of the litter. St. Anthony's Fire, popular name for erysipelas, from the tradition that those who sought his intercession recovered from that distemper in 1089.