Antony was a Coptic-speaking farmer's son from Middle Egypt who could not read Greek, which is part of why the movement he started belongs to Egypt rather than to the empire's cities. The Life written by Athanasius around 360 turned him into a model for the whole Christian world. His monastery, Deir Mar Antonios near the Red Sea, still functions; so does the nearby monastery of Saint Paul. Coptic monasticism collapsed and revived repeatedly, most recently in the twentieth century under Pope Cyril VI, himself a monk, when educated young men began entering the desert houses in numbers again.