06 Works, Today, June 6th is Saint Hilarion's day, his story in Paintings #157

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Synaxarion of Saint Hilarion

Saint Hilarion was born around 776. His pious parents were known by Emperor Leo IV the Khazar, his father being the bread supplier at the imperial table. 

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Leo IV the Khazar, 750 –780, Byzantine Emperor from 775 to 780

According to the Evangelical counsel, at twenty years of age he left his father, mother, home, and possessions, and entered the monastery of Xerokopios in Byzantium. He then went to the monastery of Dalmaton, where he received the Great Angelic Habit and priestly ordination. 

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Nikephoros I

12th century Manasses Chronicle

Upon the hegumen's death, Emperor Nicephoros I Logothetus (802-811) as well as the Patriarch of Constantinople designated him to succeed him. He ruled Christ's flock with divine virtue for eight years. 

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The proclamation of Emperor Leo V the Armenian

When the savage Leo the Armenian seized the imperial scepter and undertook to destroy the Holy Icons, the Saint was led to the imperial palace and called upon in vain to reject the Holy Icons. The Emperor sent him to the monastery of Phoneus near Detroit, where he kept him for six months. Then he had him shut up and maltreated in the monastery of Cyclobium. After two years and six months, he was sent to a military prison from which he withdrew him to exile him to the fortress of Protilion, after a cruel beating. 

Michael the Stammerer

Under Michael the Stammerer, becoming Emperor in 820, the Saint was freed and sheltered by a pious woman who served him for seven years. Emperor Theophilos again arrested all confessors of the faith in order to imprison them. After having received one hundred and seventeen whip lashes on his back, Saint Hilarion was exiled for eight years to the island of Aphousia. 

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Mosaic of Theodora

Basilica of San Vitale (built A.D. 547)

Upon Theophilos' death in 842, Empress Theodora called all the exiled confessors together in the capital in 843 and confirmed Orthodoxy by the exaltation and veneration of the Holy Icons. Set free, the Saint returned to his monastery where he died three years later in 845 or 846. More on Saint Hilarion

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