SAINT HESYCHIUS, PRIEST
According to the Greek Synaxarium (Mart. I. 873), Saint Hesychius was born and brought up in Jerusalem. By A.D. 412 he had already acquired a reputation for extensive learning. He was probably born in the second half of the 4th century. Saint Gregory of Nazianzen is thought to have been his teacher. More than in all other sciences he was versed in the professions pertaining to God and divine things.
He sought solitude, became a monk and lived in the desert, where he visited the fathers in the monasteries and gathered the flowers of virtue like the bee collects honey. His piety persuaded the archbishop of Jerusalem to ordain him a priest. He also travelled to all the holy places where Jesus Christ lived, taught and suffered and devoted himself to the interpretation of the holy scriptures. He is said to have written a commentary on the book of Leviticus. Homilies and a compendium of church history which bears his name and of which a few fragments have come down to us are also attributed to him. He died a happy death about the year 434, having served God in every exercise of Christian perfection. (III. 713)
(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 2, Augsburg, 1861, p. 688)
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PRAYER:
Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Hesychius may increase our devotion and promote our salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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