Saint-Antoine-l'Abbaye
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Saint-Antoine-l'Abbaye, also Saint-Antoine-en-Viennois, is a town and commune in the Isère département, in France.
Formerly known as La-Motte-Saint-Didier, it was renamed after becoming the home of the relics of Saint Anthony the Great in the 11th century, and shortly afterwards of the original house of the Hospital Brothers of St. Anthony, founded here as the result of miraculous cures from St. Anthony's Fire ascribed to the relics.
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