This article is about the life of Saint Hilarion. For other persons named Hilarion, see Hilarion (name).
Saint
Hilarion
Hilarion the Great, by Basil II, c.1000 (Vatican Library)
Abbot
Born
AD 291 Thabatha, south of Gaza in Syria Palaestina, Roman Empire
Died
AD 371 Province of Cyprus, Roman Empire
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Pre-congregation
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October 21
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Hilarion the Great (291–371) was an anchorite who spent most of his life in the desert according to the example of Anthony the Great (c. 251–356). While Anthony is considered to have established Christian monasticism in the Egyptian Desert, Hilarion is considered by some to be the founder of Palestinian monasticism[1] (see also Chariton the Confessor) and venerated as a saint by the Orthodox and the Roman Catholic Church.
^Butler, Edward Cuthbert (1911). "Hilarion, St" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 458.
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