"Our Father and Archbishop Epiphanius of Cyprus" is commemorated in the Byzantine Kalendar on May 12.
At last, in a wilderness near Paphos in Cyprus, death released Hilarion, this much persecuted saint, from importunities. Almost with his last breath he expressed a wish as to where his body was to be buried—without pomp or ceremony. His wishes were respected, but his friend and favourite disciple, Hesychius, stole his body from the grave, re-interring it in his own monastery at Mayoumas. A rivalry ensued between the places of the first and second interments; miracles were said to be performed at both.
According to Sozomen, his festival was observed in Palestine with great solemnity as early as the fifth century.
St. Hilarion's name occurs in the Byzantine Kalendar on October 21, as
"Our Father Hilarion the Great."[28]
FOOTNOTES:
[27] For the Miracles of St. Hilarion see Neale's Patriarchate of Antioch, pp. 111-13.
[28] For the chariot race during the life of Hilarion see Appendix I, on the Circus of Gaza.