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Icons of St. Hilary of
Poitiers, Bishop, Church Father
Feast: Jan. 13
Top Icon: of unknown
provenance.
Next Icon: of unknown
provenance.
Next Icon: by the hand of
Hieromonk Cassien, Greek Old Calendarist Hermitage, Clara, France.
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Icon: old fresco of St. Hilary of Poitiers.
Next Image: illumination from
a 9th-c. manuscript. Beneath it appears the 13th c. altar at the Abbey
of S.-Denis with the reliquary containing the relics of St. Hilary.
Old English liturgical books
have the following Preface for the Liturgy on the feast day of St.
Hilary: "... that we should always and in all places give thanks, pay
our vows, and consecrate our gifts to Thee, O Holy Lord, Father
almighty, everlasting God. Who of old didst choose Thy blessed
confessor Hilary for Thyself to be a prelate of sanctified confession,
shining brightly with radiance vast, mighty in the meekness of his
ways, burning with the fervour of his faith, flowing with the fountain
of his speech. For the One in Whom his glory lay, is revealed by
the multitudes thronging his sepulchre, the purification of those that
hasten to it, the healing of the diseased there, the signs of
astonishing miracles..."
From the complete Old Sarum Rite Missal, (c) 1998 St. Hilarion Press
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