When, at length, the persecution had ceased and the blessed Bishop Peter had died a martyr, Anthony departed and again retired to he cell. There, he was daily a martyr to conscience in the sufferings he endured for the faith. He practicsed a much more intense asceticism, for he fasted constantly and wore a garment made of skin, the inner lining of which was of hair. He kept this even until his death. He never bathed his body with water to cleanse it. nor did he even wash his feet; he would