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Vita S. Hilarionis

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Hesychius discipulus quaerit Hilarionem. – Dum haec ita geruntur in Sicilia, Hesychius discipulus eius, toto senem orbe quaerebat, lustrans littora, deserta penetrans; et hanc tantum habens fiduciam, quia ubicumque esset, diu latere non posset. Transacto igitur iam triennio, audivit Methonae a quodam [0048C] Iudaeo, vilia populis scruta vendente, Prophetam Christianorum apparuisse in Sicilia, tanta miracula et signa facientem, ut de veteribus sanctis putaretur. Interrogans itaque habitum eius, incessum et linguam, maximeque aetatem, nihil discere potuit. Ille enim qui referebat, famam ad se venisse tantum hominis testabatur. Ingressus igitur Adriam, prospero [al. propero] cursu venit Pachynum; et in quadam curvi littoris villula, famam senis sciscitatus, consona voce omnium cognovit ubi esset, quid ageret: nihil in eo ita cunctis admirantibus, quam quod post tanta signa atque miracula, ne fragmen quidem panis a quoquam in illis locis accepisset. Et ne longum faciam, sanctus vir Hesychius ad magistri [0049A] genua provolutus, plantasque eius lacrymis rigans, tandem ab eo sublevatus, post bidui triduique sermonem audit a Gazano, non posse senem iam in illis habitare regionibus; sed velle ad barbaras quasdam pergere nationes, ubi et nomen et rumor suus incognitus foret.

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The Life of S. Hilarion

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While this was going on in Sicily Hesychius his disciple was searching the world over for the old man, traversing the coast, penetrating deserts, clinging all the while to the belief that wherever he was he could not long be hidden. At the end of three years he heard at Methona from a certain Jew, who dealt in old-clothes, that a Christian prophet had appeared in Sicily, and was working such miracles and signs, one might think him one of the ancient saints. So he asked about his dress, gait, and speech, and in particular his age, but could learn nothing. His informant merely P. 313 declared that he had heard of the man by report. He therefore crossed the Adriatic and after a prosperous voyage came to Pachynus, where he took up his abode in a cottage on the shore of the bay, and, on inquiring for tidings of the old man, discovered by the tale which every one told him where he was, and what he was doing. Nothing about him surprised them all so much as the fact that after such great signs and wonders he had not accepted even a crust of bread from any one in the district. And, to cut my story short, the holy man Hesychius fell down at his master’s knees and bedewed his feet with tears; at length he was gently raised by him, and when two or three days had been spent in talking over matters, he learned from Gazanus that Hilarion no longer felt himself able to live in those parts, but wanted to go to certain barbarous races where his name and fame were unknown.