Hilarioni wa Gaza

Hilarioni wa Gaza (Gaza, Palestina, 291 – Pafo, Kupro, 371) alikuwa mkaapweke aliyetumia sehemu kubwa ya maisha yake jangwani kufuatana na mfano wa Antoni Mkuu https://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/74650.

Tangu kale anaheshimiwa na Wakatoliki na Waorthodoksi kama mtakatifu. 

Sikukuu yake huadhimishwa tarehe 21 OktobaMartyrologium Romanumhttps://catholicsaints.info/saint-hilarion-of-gaza/.

Maisha
Hilarioni alizaliwa na Wapagani huko Thabatha, kusini kwa Gaza, (Palestina). 

Baada ya kusoma utaalamu wa kutoa hotuba huko Aleksandria. Inaonekana huko aliongokea Ukristo akaachana na anasa na tamasha akashiriki sana ibada. 

Aliposikia habari za Antoni, zilizovuma kote Misri, Hilarioni, akiwa na umri wa miaka kumi na tano, alikwenda kuishi naye jangwani kwa miezi miwili. Kwa kuwa makao ya Antoni yalitembelewa sana na wageni waliohitaji kuombewa, Hilarioni alirudi nyumbani na wamonaki kadhaa. 

Huko Thabatha alikuta wazazi wake wameshakufa, hivyo aligawa urithi wake kwa ndugu na mafukara, akaondoka kwenda upwekeni sehemu mbalimbali, akiwa na vichache na kufunga vikali hasa aliposhawishwa kufanya uasherati. Ndiyo maana alikonda sana, mbali ya kwamba toka mwanzo alikuwa na afya mbovu. Alipata riziki zake kwa kutengeneza makapu.

Hilarioni alipatwa na majaribu mengi"So many were his temptations and so various the snares of demons night and day, that if I wished to relate them, a volume would not suffice. How often when he lay down did naked women appear to him, how often sumptuous feasts when he was hungry!" (Jerome, Life of St Hilarion, 7), yakiwemo ukavu wa kiroho na kishawishi cha kukata tamaa. 

Alipozidi kutembelewa alijitafutia mahali pa mbali zaidi: kwanza Misri, halafu Sicilia, Dalmatia na hatimaye Cyprus alipofariki mwaka 371.

Vyanzo
Chanzo kikuu kuhusu Hilarioni ni kitabu cha JeromuKirsch, Johann Peter. "St. Hilarion." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 7. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. 28 Jan. 2013 kilichoandikwa mwaka 390 huko Bethlehemu kwa lengo la kuhimiza umonaki.Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Vol. 6. Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace, translated by W.H. Fremantle, G. Lewis and W.G. Martley. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1893.) Revised and edited by Kevin KnightAccording to Jerome, Bishop Epiphanius of Salamis, had already described his virtues in a well-known letter, which has not been preserved. 

Tazama pia
Watakatifu wa Agano la Kale
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Orodha ya Watakatifu wa Afrika
Orodha ya Watakatifu Wafransisko
Mababu wa jangwani

Tanbihi

Marejeo ya Kiswahili
 John Kabeya na wengine - Maisha ya Watakatifu – ed. T.M.P. Book Department – Tabora 1965, 1989, uk. 367-369
 Pd. Leandry Kimario, O.F.M.Cap. - Mfahamu Mtakatifu Somo Wako - Maisha ya Watakatifu wa Kila Siku pamoja na Watakatifu Wafransisko - Toleo la pili - Dar es Salaam 2021, uk. 323-324

Viungo vya nje
The life of St. Hilarion
Colonnade Statue in St Peter's Square

Category:Waliozaliwa 291
Category:Waliofariki 371
Category:Wamonaki
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Jamii:Mababu wa jangwani
Category:Watakatifu wa Palestina
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