ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 15th of May WELCOME ! SAINT HILARUS, ABBOT OF GALEATA (S. Hilarus, Abb. Galeat.) In A.D. 476, Abbot Hilarus [Hilary], also known as Hillarus, Hyllarus, Illarus, ( Butler *: Hilarius) was born in the area of Tuscany and received a Christian education. According to the Life written by his pupil Paulus, which is published in the Bollandists* (III. 473), Hilarus feared God from childhood and avoided all evil. At the age of 12, he came across a little volume of the letters of Saint Paul, which he began to read regularly, drinking in all they related. Hilarus thereby arrived more and more at the decision to leave the world and serve God in solitude. Moreover, a passage of the gospel was read in church a while later, where our Saviour says that no one can be his disciple who does not hate his father and mother and his own soul, etc . (Luke 14:26 ). Since he did not quite understand these words, Hilarus, some time after ...