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The Life of S. Hilarion

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He shaved his hair once a year on Easter Day, and until his death was accustomed to lie on the bare ground or on a bed of rushes. The sackcloth which he had once put on he never washed, and he used to say that it was going too far to look for cleanliness in goats’ hair-cloth. Nor did he change his shirt unless the one he wore was almost in rags. He had committed the Sacred Writings to memory, and after prayer and singing was wont to recite them as if in the presence of God. It would be tedious to narrate singly the successive steps of his spiritual ascent; I will therefore set them in a summary way before my reader, and describe his mode of life at each stage, and will afterwards return to proper historical sequence.

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Vita S. Hilarionis

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Cultus Hilarionis. – Capillum semel in anno die Paschae totondit: super nudam humum stratumque [0032C] iunceum usque ad mortem cubitavit. Saccum quo semel fuerat indutus, numquam lavans: et SUPERFLUUM ESSE dicens munditias in cilicio quaerere. Nec mutavit alteram tunicam, nisi cum prior penitus scissa esset. Scripturas quoque sanctas memoriter tenens, post orationes et psalmos quasi Deo praesente recitabat. Et quia longum est per diversa tempora carptim ascensum [al. ascensus] eius edicere, comprehendam breviter ante lectoris oculos, Vitam eius pariter exponens; et deinceps ad narrandi ordinem regrediar.