Hilarion

Abba Hilarion of Gaza was one of the Desert Fathers quoted in the Apophthegmata Patrum (Sayings of the Desert Fathers).

Quotes

• Abba Hilarion from Palestine visited Abba Antony at the mountain and Abba Antony said to him: “Welcome, star of the morning, rising at dawn.”
  “Peace be with you, pillar of light supporting the world,” said Abba Hilarion to him.
  • Saying 1

Wortley, John (2014). Give Me a Word: The Alphabetical Sayings of the Desert Fathers. Yonkers, New York: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press. ISBN 978-0-88141-497-4. 

• “Go forth, my soul, why do you hesitate? You have served Christ nearly eighty years; do you still fear death?”
  • Dying words

Workman, Herbert B. (2008). The Evolution of the Monastic Ideal. Wipf & Stock Publishers. p. 122. ISBN 978-1-60608-293-5.