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Hilarion of Pelekete
Byzantine monk
SaintFull write-upByzantine EmpireDate unknown
Feast: 28 March (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
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unknown
Died
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unknown
Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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not on record
Who they were
Near Mount Olympus in Bithynia, in present-day Greece, Saint Hilarion, hegumen of the monastery of Pelekete, who strenuously defended the veneration of sacred images.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 28 March as hegumen of the monastery of Pelekete who strenuously defended the veneration of sacred images.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 28 March (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q16082593 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Hilarion the Younger (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.