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Venerable Hilarion the New Abbot of the Dalmatian Monastery

Also known as Hilarion of Dalmatos

Tonsured from boyhood, he became abbot of the Dalmatian monastery in Constantinople and, refusing to give up the holy icons, endured beatings and imprisonment under the iconoclast emperors.

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Distinct from St Hilarion the New of Pelecete (Mar 28, OS-0887).

Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints