Hilarius of Aquileia

Hilary († 285 in Aquileia ) was an early bishop of Aquileia, martyr and saint.

Life and work

According to the legend, Hilary second bishop of Aquileia was after Hermagoras, who was regarded as a direct student of Mark the Evangelist, so that his term would still fall in the 1st century. However, the martyrdom is narrated by Emperor Numerian, ie by 285, so that the connection to Mark for future early dating appears to give the Patriarchate of Aquileia, a more venerable age and also Hermagoras is now rather dated in the 3rd century for Hilary.

With respect to the martyrdom of Hilary, there is the tradition that he was allegedly tortured with his deacon Tatian and his companion Felix, Largus and Dionysius to death. Before the province commander Beronius to Hilary to have known, to be bishop of the Christians and refused to sacrifice to the Roman gods, whose images he had brought his prayer to collapse. He was then in a March 16, was beheaded his commemoration as a saint along with Tatian.