28°55′29″N 32°20′54″E / 28.9247117°N 32.3483919°E / 28.9247117; 32.3483919 (Dayr Mārī Antonios) Mount Colzim (or Qulzum, Qalzam, or Qolozum[1]), also known as the Inner Mountain of Saint Anthony, is a mountain in Red Sea Governorate, Egypt, which was the final residency of Anthony the Great from about AD 311, when he was 62 years of age,[1][2] to his death in 356.
Since the early days of his monasticism and prior to 311, Anthony lived at what Athanasius of Alexandria called his outer mountain (located at Pispir next to the Nile) for almost twenty years.
"But when he saw himself beset by many [people], and not allowed to withdraw himself according to his intent as he wished...he considered and set off to go into the upper Thebaid, among those to whom he was unknown.
[2] Anthony traveled with a group of Saracens for three days along the Wādī al-'Arabah towards the Gulf of Suez.
[4][2] Folklore maintains that he is still buried at the Monastery of Saint Anthony in the chapel of the Creatures of the Apocalypse.