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Itโs been said that youth is wasted on the young. In some ways, that was true for todayโs saint.
Born in France in the early fifth century, Hilary came from an aristocratic family. In the course of his education he encountered his relative, Honoratus, who encouraged the young man to join him in the monastic life. Hilary did so. He continued to follow in the footsteps of Honoratus as bishop. Hilary was only 29 when he was chosen bishop of Arles.
The new, youthful bishop undertook the role with confidence. He did manual labor to earn money for the poor. He sold sacred vessels to ransom captives. He became a magnificent orator. He traveled everywhere on foot, always wearing simple clothing.
That was the bright side. Hilary encountered difficulty in his relationships with other bishops over whom he had some jurisdiction. He unilaterally deposed one bishop. He selected another bishop to replace one who was very illโbut, to complicate matters, did not die! Pope Saint Leo the Great kept Hilary a bishop but stripped him of some of his powers.
Hilary died at 49. He was a man of talent and piety who in due time, had learned how to be a bishop.
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๐๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐๐ข๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ, ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐จ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ถ๐ด, ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ข๐ช๐ฏ๐ต ๐๐ช๐ญ๐ข๐ณ๐บ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ณ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด, ๐ข ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ค๐ช๐ง๐ถ๐ญ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ญ๐ข๐ณ๐จ๐ฆ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ข๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ. ๐๐ด ๐๐ฆ๐ด๐ถ๐ด ๐ต๐ข๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ฅ๐ช๐ด๐ค๐ช๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด, ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ง๐บ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ญ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ฉ๐ณ๐ช๐ด๐ต ๐ฃ๐บ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด. ๐๐ข๐ช๐ฏ๐ต ๐๐ช๐ญ๐ข๐ณ๐บ ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ ๐ข๐ญ๐ธ๐ข๐บ๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ข๐ค๐ต ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ข๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ญ๐บ, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ข๐ญ๐ง ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ช๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ณ, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ค๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ถ๐ช๐ญ๐ต๐บ. ๐๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ด๐ต ๐ถ๐ด, ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ, ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ญ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ข๐ต๐ต๐ณ๐ช๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฉ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ณ๐ท๐ช๐ค๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ธ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฅ, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ ๐๐ฉ๐ณ๐ช๐ด๐ต ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ. ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ
