!? Saint or 'Monk'
Hilarion (d. 1476)
STATUS: DUBIOUS – EVIDENCE OF A MEDIEVAL FABRICATION / MISATTRIBUTION
In Fr. Culleton's book:
“The Prophets and Our Times” - there is a prophecy attributed to
a 'Monk Hilarion' who he says died in 1476.
The only monk I can find
who died in that year is a monk of the Orthodox tradition who is
considered a saint by them, Venerable Hilarion, Abbot of Gdov and
Pskov Lake, but I cannot find any information at all that he was
gifted with prophecy.
I have also failed to find
any early credible text source for this prophecy attributed to
St. Hilarion the Great also known as St. Hilarion of Czenstochau (291-371 AD), or, even to the Italian
Cistercian Abbot of the Santa Croce Monastery in Gerusalemme,
Hilarion (Ilarione) Rancati
(1594-1693).
In
fact, since the earliest date attributed to this prophecy is 1476, this may be another of those spurious medieval
elaborations falsely attributed to the earlier St. Hilarion and also the orthodox 'Monk Hilarion' as there is a
passage that sounds very similar to a prophecy regarding three wise
men or three wise successors to the 'Angelic Pontiff' that only first appeared in a work attributed to Bl. Joachim of Fiore (c. 1135 – 1202) called the 'Liber
de Flore', and is the most questionable element of all the prophecies
attributed to him:
Quote
attributed to Blessed Joachim de Fiore: "His
three immediate successors shall be men of exemplary holiness. One
after the other will be models of virtue, and shall work miracles,
confirming the teaching of their predecessors. Under their government
the Church shall spread, and these Popes shall be called the Angelic
Pastors."
(Source, Footnote 1)
Similar
material is in the 'St. Hilarion' and 'Monk Hilarion' Prophecies:
“The Holy Man (Angelic Pastor?) will bring peace between the clergy
and the Eagle and his reign will last for four years. Then after his death
God will send three men who are rich in wisdom and virtue. These men
will administer the laws of the Holy Man and spread Christianity
everywhere. Then there will be one flock, one shepherd, one faith,
one law, one life and one baptism throughout the world."
Of interest, this is not
the first time a prophecy attributed to Bl Joachim was embellished
and attributed to another author, this same thing happened with the
'Abbot 'Merlin' Joachim' prophecy dated to 1202, the correct time for
Bl Joachim Fiore, but misattributed to Jacques (Joaquim) Merlin -
(c.1480 – 1541), click here for more info.
Misattributions are a big
problem regarding prophecies from the Medieval period – the real
Great Monarch commentary by Monk Adso for instance was elaborated
upon and misattributed to St. Augustine and St. Anselm.
As there is evidence the
'Monk Hilarion' is another falsified prophecy, it is not in the
Timeline.
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Footnotes:
(1) Source,
"A Companion to Joachim of Fiore", by Matthias Riedl,
Brill, 2017, p. 262
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Post published; August 5, 2020.
