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: During the first years he had no other shelter than a little arbour, which he made of woven reeds and rushes. Afterwards he built himself a cell ... four feet broad and five in height, and a little longer than his body, like a tomb rather than a house. Soon he found that figs alone were insufficient to support life properly and permitted himself to eat as well vegetables, bread and oil. But advancing age was not allowed to lessen his austerities. | : During the first years he had no other shelter than a little arbour, which he made of woven reeds and rushes. Afterwards he built himself a cell ... four feet broad and five in height, and a little longer than his body, like a tomb rather than a house. Soon he found that figs alone were insufficient to support life properly and permitted himself to eat as well vegetables, bread and oil. But advancing age was not allowed to lessen his austerities. | ||
: St. Hilarion underwent many grievous trials. Sometimes his soul was covered with a dark cloud and his heart was dry and oppressed with bitter anguish; but the deafer Heaven seemed to his cries on such occasions, the more earnestly he persevered in prayer.<ref>Herbert Thurston and Donald Atwater, eds., ''Butler’s Lives of the Saints'', rev. (New York: P. J. Kenedy and Sons, 1962), 4:163. | : St. Hilarion underwent many grievous trials. Sometimes his soul was covered with a dark cloud and his heart was dry and oppressed with bitter anguish; but the deafer Heaven seemed to his cries on such occasions, the more earnestly he persevered in prayer.<ref>Herbert Thurston and Donald Atwater, eds., ''Butler’s Lives of the Saints'', rev. (New York: P. J. Kenedy and Sons, 1962), 4:163.</ref> | ||
== Miracles and healings == | == Miracles and healings == | ||
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{{HTH}}, pp. 42–48. | {{HTH}}, pp. 42–48. | ||
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