21st October - Saint Hilarion - Independent Catholic News

21st October - Saint Hilarion - Independent Catholic News: Abbot and monastic pioneer of Palestine. St Hilarion was born in 291 in Gaza. He studied at Alexandria, where he became a Christian. After the death of his parents he gave all he owned to his brothers and the poor and went to live as a hermit at Majuma. He followed the same regime as St Antony - a diet of figs, bread, vegetables and oil. First he built a small shelter of reeds, later a stone cell measuring about five feet by four feet.