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Spiritual & Corporal. The three friars at the cemetery of Guadix are an experiment which may in a few years become a full-fledged new order: Los Hermanos Fosores de la Miserícordia. It began with two hermits, Hilarion and Bernardo, of the Order of Our Lady of the Desert, in their hermitage near Córdoba...
...Brother Hilarion, a onetime sexton now in his early 30s, and Brother Bernardo, an ex-medical student in his late 20s. were both dissatisfied with the purely contemplative life. They decided to start an order that, by combining contemplation with work, would fulfill the seventh precept of spiritual mercy, to pray for the souls of the living and dead, and the seventh precept of corporal mercy, to bury the dead...
Bishop Rafael Alvarez Lara agreed to give the idea a trial in his See of Guadix, and Brothers Hilarion and Bernardo went to work. In the cemetery's dilapidated tool shed, they arranged two small cells and a tiny kitchen. All day long, they labor in the graveyard, clearing paths, repairing crumbling headstones, replacing rusty iron crosses and digging graves, an average of one a day. Each day they rise at 2 a.m. to walk in meditation through the cemetery to the tiny chapel, where they pray until...
...word "vitamin" is only 34 years old, and the vitamin fad is younger still. But this passage from St. Jerome's Life of St. Hilarion, written some 1,550 years ago and recently quoted by a letter writer to the British Nature, is an accurate description of vitamin A deficiency and its cure. Though ordinary olive oil contains almost no vitamin A, Nature's erudite correspondent noted that "a crude and unpurified oil such as St. Hilarion would have permitted himself" would contain enough of the vitamin to cure...
...male leads will be taken by Harvard men. James H. Goulder '36 will play the part of King Hildebrand; Joseph F. Lautner '22, now in the Music department, Hilarion; William Shelmerdine '37, Cyril; John C. Cort '35, Florian; Thomas O. Jones '38, Arac; William G. Cahan '35, Guron; and Herbert S. Wallis '36, Seynthius...