St. Hilarion the Great

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  • St. Hieronymus of Stridon: Vita S. Hilarionis Eremytæ (PL XXIII:29): The principal source of information about the saint's life, written while Jerome was himself an hermit in Palestine and in contact with Hilarion's immediate disciples, notably St. Epiphanius.

    • St. Jerome: Life of St. Hilarion Fremantle translation, 1893, with notes and study guide. ---SPL

    • Susan Weingarten: "The Vita Hilarionis". Chapter Two of her The Saint's Saints: Hagiography and Geography in Jerome [Leiden: Brill, 2005]. A very detailed and excellent study, although in my opinion rather too enthusiastic about supposed parallels to Apuleius's novel The Golden Ass.

  • St. Symeon Metaphrastes: Vita Hilarionis. The Metaphrast's version is the subject of a forthcoming dissertation by Laura Franco of Royal Holloway College London.

  • Neophytus: Laudatio Hilarionis. [Anal. Bolland. 26:286 (1907)]

  • St. Demetrius (Tuptalo) of Rostov: "The Life of Our Holy Monastic Father Hilarion the Great", from The Great Collection of the Lives of the Saints. Eighteenth Century. Virtually identical to Jerome's Life, but with a few notable differences. --- Chrysostom Press

  • St. Nicholas (Velimirovich) of Zicha: "The Venerable Hilarion the Great", from The Prologue of Ohrid. Twentieth Century. --- Serbian Orthodox Church, Diocese of Western America

  • Synaxarion, October 21: Hilarion the Great. Various Synaxarion lives of St. Hilarion (meant to be read aloud in public) can be found at the websites of different Orthodox churches; another, comparable to Jerome's in length, is translated in the book The Lives of the Saints of the Holy Land and the Sinai Desert [Buena Vista, Colo.: Holy Apostles Convent, 1988]. Details often vary from version to version, and there is a strong tendency for nouns to assume curious forms due to recopying (and perhaps misunderstanding) by generations of scribes -- for example, some synaxaria interpret the Latin military term "scutarius" (para. 37 of Jerome's Life) as a personal name. Similarly, the name of Hilarion's principal disciple (given as "Hesychius" by Jerome and "Hesychas" by Sozomen) becomes "Ezekiel" or "Hezekiah" in some later versions.

  • Other Lives: The Bibliotheca Hagiographica Græca (1957) lists in addition an anonymous Greek vita, three Greek translations of Jerome's vita, and "Narratio seu Revelationes, Cod. Paris 1295".

  • Troparion. English text with Russian Imperial Court Chant musical setting (Obikhod: after L'vov/Bakhmetev) in Western musical notation. --- Chrysostom Press

  • Kontakion. English text with Russian Imperial Court Chant musical setting (Obikhod: after L'vov/Bakhmetev) in Western musical notation. --- Chrysostom Press