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The Life of S. Hilarion

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The Life of S. Hilarion

The hermit who carried the desert into Palestine

By St. Jerome

1 h 3 min · Age of the Councils · Latin West · Desert Fathers

Hilarion heard Antony in Egypt and took that life home to Gaza, and the solitary life in Palestine begins with him. The longest of the three Lives, and the one most crowded with the ordinary people who came looking for him.

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Source: St. Jerome, The Principal Works of St. Jerome. Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace, translated by W. H. Fremantle with G. Lewis and W. G. Martley. Oxford and New York, 1893. Public domain.