Today, Thursday, March 28, marks the feast day for the Venerable Hilarion the New, a 9th century Abbot of the Pelecete monastery near the Marmara Sea settlement known as Triglia in the Middle Ages, in northwest Asia Minor.
Hilarion the New was well-known during his lifetime for his ascetic routine and his defense of the veneration of icons, even in the face of torture and deprivations.