Baring-Gould’s sources: Inserted in the Modem Roman Martyrology by Baronins. Authorities: — the Life of S. Hilarion by S. Jerome, Nicephoros Callistus, &c.] S. Hesychius was one of the devoted disciples of S. Hilarion, and was banished with him from Gaza. The implacable enmity of the pagans against S. Hilarion led them to pursue him when he fled, and the old hermit led for some time a life of concealment in Sicily. From thence Hilarion sent Hesychius to Palestine to salute the brethren. After having accomplished his mission, Hesychius rejoined his master in Cyprus, but was absent on another expedition to Palestine when the venerable hermit died. S. Hilarion, by will, left him his heir, bequeathing to him his book of the Gospels, and his clothes. Hesychius, having learned the death of his master, returned to Cyprus, and stayed ten months in the cell of Carburin, where the old man’s bones weie laid, till the suspicion of the Cypriots was allayed, and then he made off with his bones at the risk of his life to Majuma, the port of Gaza, to the old monastery of S. Hilarion.