Hilarinus

Holy Martyr Hilarinus was a monk and died for the faith at Arezzo in Tuscany in the year 361, in the persecution of the emperor Julian the Apostate, together with Bishop Donatus. Hilarinus was scourged to death, while Donatus was beheaded. The Roman Martyrology says of Donatus that, seized by the imperial officer Quadratian, he refused to sacrifice to idols and was struck with the sword, and that Hilarinus suffered with him. The accounts tell of miracles worked by them, among them the restoring, whole again, of a glass altar chalice shattered by the pagans.

The Roman Martyrology has several martyrs of the name Hilarinus; one of them, Hilarinus of Ostia, is said to have been beaten with clubs in 362 together with Gallicanus and buried at Ostia, but that is a different commemoration. Donatus is commemorated on 7 August, and Hilarinus in some calendars on 16 July (new style). Hilarinus is venerated in the Catholic Church, as a saint of the undivided Church.