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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)
The Temptation of Saint Hilarion by Dominique Papety, 1844
Unknown painter Transfiguration of Christ WGA23487
The Sayings of the Desert Fathers is the name given to various textual collections consisting of stories and sayings attributed to the Desert Fathers of Egypt from approximately the 5th century AD.
Sogdian Christian copy of the text written in Syriac