Hilarion the New

Venerable Hilarion the New was abbot of the Dalmatos monastery in Constantinople and suffered much for the holy icons. He departed to the Lord in the year 845, at the age of seventy. He is commemorated on 6 June by the old calendar, which is 19 June by the new.

He was a disciple of Venerable Gregory the Decapolite and followed the life of Hilarion the Great, whose name he also took. In the time of the iconoclast emperors, Leo the Armenian and the others, he endured much. After Leo the Armenian was killed, Hilarion was let out of prison, but was then tormented again and kept in prison until the empress Theodora came to power.

Christian tradition says that he had the gift of foresight and spiritual discernment, so that he once saw angels carrying the soul of Saint Theodore the Studite to heaven. He died a natural death.