Hilarion francisco biography of abraham
Jerome, in his Life of Hilarion, presents *Hilarion (anchorite in Palestine and Cyprus, ob. , S) as a monastic leader and miracle-worker, junior but equal to *Antony ('the Great', monk of Egypt, ob. , S). Written in Latin in Bethlehem (Palestine) in the early s.
Evidence ID
E
Type of Evidence
Literary - Hagiographical - Lives of saint
Major author/Major anonymous work
Jerome of Stridon
Jerome, Life of Hilarion 14 and 24
Chapter 14
A noble woman named Aristenete visits both Antony in Egypt and Hilarion in Palestine and asks the latter to heal her children, who suddenly fallen ill, in the following words:
"Hilarion, serue Christi, redde mihi liberos meos.
Quos Antonius tenuit in Aegypto, a te seruentur in Syria".
'"Hilarion, servant of Christ, give me back my children: Antony kept them safe in Egypt, do you save them in Syria".'
There follows a description of the healing. The passage concludes:
Quod postquam auditum est et longe late que percrebuit, certatim ad eum de Syria et Aegypto populi confluebant, ita ut multi crederent in Christum et se monachos profiterentur.
Necdum enim tunc monasteria erant in Palaestina nec quisquam monachum ante sanctum Hilarionem in Syria nouerat.
Hilarion francisco biography of abraham lincoln In his final years, Hilarion traveled to the island of Cyprus, where he peacefully passed away in either or AD. Personalities of the Early Church. Source Jerome wrote the Life of Hilarion almost 20 years later than the Life of Paul of Thebes see E and with a slightly different purpose. Weingarten, S.Ille fundator et eruditor huius conuersationis et studii in hac prouincia primum fuit. Habebat dominus Iesus in Aegypto senem Antonium, habebat in Palaestina Hilarionem iuniorem.
'When the matter was noised abroad, and the fame of it spread far and wide, the people flocked to him from Syria and Egypt, so that many believed in Christ and professed themselves monks.
For as yet there were no monasteries in Palestine, nor had anyone known a monk in Syria before the saint Hilarion. It was he who originated this mode of life and devotion, and who first trained men to it in that province.
Hilarion francisco biography of abraham maslow Final years and death [ edit ]. Theodoric Balat. Upon Hilarion's death, Epiphanius announced his death in a laudatory letter which served as primary source for both Jerome and Sozomenus who wrote subsequent hagiographies about Hilarion. Aspects of meditation Orationis Formas ,The Lord Jesus had in Egypt the aged Antony: in Palestine He had the younger Hilarion.'
Chapter 24
In tantam enim a domino fuerat eleuatus gloriam, ut beatus quoque Antonius audiens conuersationem eius scriberet libenterque eius epistulas sumeret, et si quando de Syriae partibus ad se languentes perrexissent, diceret eis: "quare uos tam longe uexare uoluistis, cum habeatis ibi filium meum Hilarionem?"
'For to such a pitch of glory was he raised by the Lord that the blessed Antony among the rest hearing of his life wrote to him and gladly received his letters.
And if ever the sick from Syria came to him he would say to them, "Why have you taken the trouble to come so far, when you have there my son Hilarion?"'
Text: Bastiaensen
Translation: Fremantle et al.
Non Liturgical Activity
Visiting/veneration of living saint
MiraclesMiracle during lifetime
Healing diseases and disabilities
Healing diseases and disabilities
Protagonists in Cult and NarrativesEcclesiastics - monks/nuns/hermits
Women
Children
Theorising on SanctityConsiderations about the hierarchy of saints
Considerations about the succession of saints
Source
Jerome wrote the Life of Hilarion at the very beginning of the s, in the early years of his long stay in Bethlehem.Hilarion died in , before Jerome's first visit to the East, so he never met him personally: he probably learnt about the monk of Gaza from Epiphanius of Salamis.
Hilarion francisco biography of abraham Canali and C. Retrieved 12 October Fortress Press. Hilaron returned to Gaza where he found his parents dead and subsequently gave away his goods to his brothers and the poor.The Life presents Hilarion as a founder of monastic life in Palestine, a powerful miracle-worker, and a monk looking all his life for solitude. If the image of the hero and the monastic life presented by Jerome in his earlier life of Paul of Thebes is in many ways polemical to that presented in Athanasius' Life of Antony, Hilarion is depicted as a new, perhaps better, Antony: the polemic is gone.
It is interesting to remark that in the Life of Hilarion Jerome aims to promote a posthumous cult of his hero: he mentions the miracles which occur both at his tomb in Maiuma, close to Gaza, and at the place of his first burial at Cyprus. Such a goal is not infrequent in later lives of holy monks, but at the end of the 4th century it was uncommon; in the Life of Antony we can see a desire to prevent the cult of its hero rather than to promote it, and the cultic aspect is also absent in Jerome's Lives of Paul and Malchus.
Bibliography
Edition:Bastiaensen, A.A.R., and Smit, J.W., in: Vita di Martino.
Vita di Ilarione. In memoria di Paola (Vita dei santi 4; Milan: Mondadori, ), with Italian translation by L. Canali and C. Moreschini.
Edition and French translation:
Morales, E.M. (ed.), and Leclerc, P. (trans.), Jérôme, Trois vies de moines (Paul, Malchus, Hilarion) (Sources chrétienns ; Paris: Cerf, ).
English translation:
Fremantle, W.H., Lewis, W., and Martley, W.G., Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Vol.
6 (Buffalo, NY, ).
Further reading:
Vogüé, A. de, Histoire littéraire du mouvement monastique dans l'antiquité. Vol. 2 (Paris: Cerf, ),
Weingarten, S., The Saint's Saints: Hagiography and Geography in Jerome (Leiden: Brill, ).
Record Created By
Robert Wiśniewski
Date of Entry
14/09/
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