Hilarion
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Hilarion, also known by the bynames of Thavata, of Gaza and, in the Orthodox Church, as the Great, was a Christian anchorite who spent most of his life in the desert according to the example of Anthon
Hilarion the Great, from the Menologion of Basil II, c. 1000 (Vatican Library)
"The Temptation of Saint Hilarion", by Octave Tassaert, c. 1857 (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts)
Saint Hilarion, 11th-century mosaic from Hosios Loukas
The Temptation of Saint Hilarion by Dominique Papety, 1844
The Glass Bead Game
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The Glass Bead Game is the last full-length novel by the German author Hermann Hesse. It was begun in 1931 in Switzerland, where it was published in 1943 after being rejected for publication in German
Hilarion
…faith by creating doubt. Hermann Hesse adapted a biography of Hilarion as one of the three Lives of Joseph Knecht, making his Nobel Prize–winning novel The Glass Bead Game (also known as Magister Ludi). Chariton the Confessor (died c. 350), also considered to be the founder of Palestinian monasticism…
First German edition