On December 28, 2013, on the feast ... St. Hilarion could ever imagine that the time would come when here, in this monastery, which is so closely bound up with him, we would be pronouncing these words ...

In Christian calendars, today is the feast-day of St Hilarion, born in 291 AD, near Gaza. He sounds as if he had a sense of humour. Given his name, he might even have become the patron saint of ...