Primary source · Latin
The Life of Hilarion
Jerome · c. AD 390
What this text is
The founder of Palestinian monasticism, from Gaza to Cyprus — Jerome's fullest, most historical desert Life, built on Epiphanius's memories of his master.
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Public-domain translations
W. H. Fremantle (NPNF, 1893)
He was the founder and teacher of this manner of life and zeal in the province of Palestine. The Lord Jesus had in Egypt the aged Antony: in Palestine he had the youthful Hilarion.
Manuscript witnesses
Jerome corpus manuscripts
6th c. onwardThe Vita Hilarionis in the same tradition as the Vita Pauli.
Patrologia Latina, vol. 23 (Migne)
1845Standard pre-critical text of the corpus.
Provenance
Bethlehem, c. AD 390 — the monastic apostle of Gaza
Editions & scholarship
Critical editions and standard translations behind the text above.
- Jérôme: Trois vies de moines (SC 508)E. M. Morales & P. Leclerc, 2007Critical edition.
- Early Christian LivesCarolinne White, 1998English translation.