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The Life of S. Hilarion

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In his eightieth year, during the absence of Hesychius, he wrote by way of a will a short letter with his own hand, and left him all his riches (that is to say, a copy of the gospels, and his sack-cloth tunic, cowl and cloak), for his servant had died a few days before. Many devout men therefore came to the invalid from Paphos, and specially because they had heard of his saying that he must soon migrate to the Lord and must be liberated from the bonds of the body. There came also Constantia a holy woman whose son-in-law and daughter he had anointed with oil and saved from death. He earnestly entreated them all not to let him be kept even a moment of time after death, but to bury him immediately in the same garden, just as he was, clad in his goat-hair tunic, cowl, and his peasant’s cloak.

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Vita S. Hilarionis

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Testamentum Hilarionis. – Olei unctione curati filia et gener Constantiae. Igitur octogesimo aetatis suae anno, cum absens esset Hesychius, quasi testamenti vice brevem manu propria scripsit epistolam, omnes divitias suas ei derelinquens (Evangelium [0052B] scilicet, et tunicam sacceam, cucullam et palliolum), nam minister eius ante paucos dies obierat. Venerunt itaque ad aegrotantem de Papho multi religiosi viri; et maxime quod eum dixisse audierant, iam se ad Dominum migraturum, et de corporis vinculis liberandum; sed et Constantia quaedam sancta femina, cuius generum et filiam de morte liberaverat unctione olei: quos omnes adiuravit, ut ne puncto quidem horae post mortem reservaretur; sed statim eum in eodem hortulo terra operirent, sicut vestitus erat in tunica cilicina et cuculla, et sago rustico.