Память преподобного отца нашего Илариона Нового 2235

From his youth, the Monk Hilarion took upon himself the yoke of monastic life: following the crucified Christ, he bore his cross, conquering carnal passions by abstinence; Having gone into seclusion and spent many years in silence, he, enlightened by dispassion, surpassed all monks in his virtuous life, for which he was awarded presbyterian rank and subsequently was abbot of a monastery called Pelicit, located in Asia, near the Hellespont 2236. The Monk Hilarion performed many wondrous miracles. With his words, he drove away animals that harmed plants from the fields and vineyards; with prayer he stopped a strong hail and brought rain down to the earth during a drought; like the prophet Elisha, he divided the river, healed the withered man, gave sight to the blind, delivered the lame from injury, cast out demons and filled the nets of fishermen with a lot of fish when the fishing was unsuccessful. The Monk Joseph the Songwriter, in the troparion of the 8th song of the canon, written by him in honor of the saint, reports that Saint Hilarion suffered persecution and insults from his tormentors for venerating the honorable icon of the Savior, for which he calls him a martyr. According to some news, the Monk Hilarion lived during the reign of Leo the Armenian, who swore at the holy icons, while others consider the time of his life to be the reign of Leo the Isaurian and his son Copronymus 2237, who were long before Leo the Armenian, which seems to be more fair. For the holy icons, he suffered at the time when, on Great Thursday, the governor Copronyma Lachondrakon unexpectedly attacked the Pelicite monastery with soldiers: during the Divine service, he boldly entered the church, and then into the altar, ordered the singing to stop and threw the Holy and Life-giving Mysteries of Christ to the ground; then, seizing him, he chained forty-two chosen monks in iron chains; Of the rest of the brethren, he inflicted wounds on some, tormenting their bodies, he scorched others, first smearing their beards and faces with resin, and cutting off the noses of others; and finally lit the monastery with the church. And he sent the chosen fathers, saints among them forty-two, into captivity to the outskirts of the Ephesus region, and there, shutting them up in one old bathhouse, he put them to violent death. It is believed that at this time the Monk Hilarion also suffered, as the eldest in the rank of abbot among the mentioned fathers 2238. The now remembered confessor of Christ, Hilarion, is called “new” in contrast to Hilarion of Dalmatia, also a confessor who suffered under the Byzantine emperor Leo V the Armenian (812–820). The memory of this last Hilarion is celebrated on June 6 The Hellespont is the ancient name of the Dardanelles Strait, connecting the Sea of Marmara and the Aegean Sea. Leo III the Isaurian reigned from 717 to 741, and his son Constantine V Copronymus from 741 to 775. The death of Saint Hilarion followed around 754. You might be interested in: