The Life of S. Hilarion 24
24 PL 23, 40
24. Time would fail me if I wished to relate all the miracles which were wrought by him. For to such a pitch of glory was he raised by the Lord that the blessed Antony among the rest hearing of his life wrote to him and gladly received his letters. And if ever the sick from Syria came to him he would say to them, “Why have you taken the trouble to come so far, when you have there my son Hilarion?” Following his example, however, innumerable monasteries sprang up throughout the whole of Palestine, and all the monks flocked to him. When he saw this he praised the Lord for His grace, and exhorted them individually to the profit of their souls, telling them that the fashion of this world passes away, and that the true life is that which is purchased by suffering in the present.
Hilarionem colebat M. Antonius. --Tempus me deficiet, si voluero universa signa, quae ab eo perpetrata sunt, dicere. In tantam enim a Domino fuerat elevatus gloriam, ut beatus quoque Antonius audiens conversationem ejus, scriberet ei, libenterque ejus epistolas sumeret. Et si quando de Syriae partibus ad se languentes perrexissent, diceret eis: Quare vos tam longe vexare voluistis, cum habeatis ibi filium meum Hilarionem? Exemplo itaque ejus per totam Palaestinam innumerabilia monasteria esse coeperunt, et omnes ad eum Monachi certatim currere. Quod [ Al. Quos] ille cernens, laudabat Domini gratiam; et ad profectum animae singulos cohortabatur, dicens: Praeterire figuram hujus mundi; et illam esse veram vitam, quae vitae praesentis emeretur incommodo.