Word: hilarions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...