Venerable
Venerable Hilarion the New, Confessor
March 28 Old CalendarApril 10 New Calendar
Life
He was the abbot of the Monastery of Pelekite near the Hellespont. He shone like the sun with the spirit of God, and healed the sick and drove out evil spirits. In the time of Leo the Armenian, the iconoclast persecution arose, in which this man of God also suffered. Together with forty of his monks he was sent into captivity near Ephesus, and there he died in prison in the year 754, and was translated to the Kingdom of Christ.
He shone like the sun with the spirit of God, and healed the sick and drove out evil spirits.
From the Prologue from Ochrid by St. Nikolai Velimirovich, March 28. Translated by Marcian Sakarya, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Also commemorated on March 28
The full reading for March 28 includes the hymn of praise, a reflection, a contemplation and a homily.
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