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The Life of S. Hilarion
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Once more, on thinking the matter over and fearing that merchants coming from the East might make him known, he fled to the interior, some twenty miles from the sea, and there on an abandoned piece of ground, every day tied up a bundle of firewood which he laid upon the back of his disciple, and sold at some neighbouring mansion. They thus supported themselves and were able to purchase a morsel of bread for any chance visitors. But that came exactly to pass which is written: 1“a city set on a hill cannot be hid.” It happened that one of the shields-men 2 who was vexed by a demon was in the basilica of the blessed Peter at Rome, when the unclean spirit within him cried out, “A few days ago Christ’s servant Hilarion entered Sicily and no one knew him, and he thinks he is hidden. I will go and betray him.” Immediately he embarked with his attendants in a ship lying in harbour, sailed to Pachynus and, led by the demon to the old man’s hut, there prostrated himself and was cured on the spot. This, his first miracle in Sicily, brought the sick to him in countless numbers (but it brought also a multitude of religious persons); insomuch that one of the leading men who was swollen with the dropsy was cured the same day that he came. He afterwards offered the saint gifts without end, but the saint replied to him in the words of the Saviour to his disciples: 3“Freely ye received, freely give.”
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Vita S. Hilarionis
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Fugit ad mediterranea loca. Hydropicus curatus. – Porro recogitans ne negotiatores de Oriente [0048A] venientes se notum facerent, ad mediterranea fugit loca, id est, vicesimo a mari millario; ibique in quodam deserto agello, lignorum quotidie fascem alligans, imponebat dorso discipuli. Quo in proxima villa venundato, et sibi alimoniam, et his qui forte ad eos veniebant, pauxillulum panis emebant. Sed vere iuxta quod scriptum est: Non potest civitas latere super montem posita (Matth. V, 14), Scutarius quidam cum in basilica beati Petri Romae torqueretur, clamavit in eo immundus spiritus: Ante paucos dies Siciliam ingressus est Hilarion servus Christi, et nemo eum novit, et putat se esse secretum; ego vadam, et prodam illum. Statimque cum servulis suis ascensa in portu nave, appulsus est Pachynum, et deducente se daemone, ubi ante tugurium [0048B] senis se prostravit, illico curatus est. Hoc initium signorum eius in Sicilia, innumerabilem ad eum deinceps aegrotantium, sed et religiosorum hominum adduxit multitudinem: in tantum, ut de primoribus viris quidam tumens morbo intercutis aquae, eodem die quo ad eum venerat, curatus sit. Qui postea offerens ei infinita munera, audivit dictum Salvatoris ad discipulos: Gratis accepistis, gratis date (Matth. X, 8).