Hilarion
anchorite and saint who spent most of his life in the desert
Abba Hilarion of Gaza was one of the Desert Fathers quoted in the Apophthegmata Patrum (Sayings of the Desert Fathers).
Quotes
edit- Abba Hilarion from Palestine visited Abba Antony at the mountain and Abba Antony said to him: “Welcome, star of the morning, rising at dawn.”
“Peace be with you, pillar of light supporting the world,” said Abba Hilarion to him.- Saying 1
- Wortley, John (2014). Give Me a Word: The Alphabetical Sayings of the Desert Fathers. Yonkers, New York: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press. ISBN 978-0-88141-497-4.
- “Go forth, my soul, why do you hesitate? You have served Christ nearly eighty years; do you still fear death?”
- Dying words
- Workman, Herbert B. (2008). The Evolution of the Monastic Ideal. Wipf & Stock Publishers. p. 122. ISBN 978-1-60608-293-5.
