Hilarion of Dionysiou (d. 1918)

Hilarion of Dionysiou (d. 1918) was from the island of Lesbos. Monk Lazarus of Dionysiou (d. 1974) says of him that he was, in name and in deed, cheerful and gentle and full of love: the attendant who cared for him, Chariton, said that when he spoke, honey flowed from his mouth. He chanted in the right choir to the deepest old age, with great modesty, reverence and a fine voice.

He was a good pupil of the hieromonk Ioasaph of Dionysiou (d. 1860), an excellent music teacher, many of whose musical manuscripts are preserved in the monastery. When the time of his departure from temporal things drew near, the blessed Hilarion sensed it and, without falling ill, asked for a confessor in order to confess. As soon as he had confessed and the confessor had left, he reposed in the Lord. It was February 1918, in his own monastery, Dionysiou, the nest of rare, sweet, guileless and quiet birds of heaven. He is venerated by the faithful, without synodal canonization.