Deepertruth: Stand In The Gap With Us And Saint Hilary of Poitiers

Stand In The Gap With Us And  Saint Hilary of Poitiers 1/13/2024

Beloved, being very eager to write to you of our common salvation,

I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints." St. Jude St. Hilary was born at Poitiers, in modern day western France around 310 A.D. Much of the Roman world at the time was Pagan and Hilary was raised by Pagan Parents who ensured the best education becoming a Greek Scholar.

Hilary would be about 15 years old when the great Council of Nicea (325 A.D.) took place that officially condemned the teaching of the Heretic Arius of Alexandria Egypt which denied the divinity of Jesus.

This would eventually become very important to Hilary. Hilary's interest in philosophy kept him searching for truth, as a Pagan, he was much like the people whom St. Paul preached to at the Areopagus in Greece:​​ St. Paul said: "Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious. For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, 'To an unknown god.' What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.

The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all men life and breath and everything." Acts 17:22-25 Hilary would forsake his Platonic background once he had been exposed to the Catholic Faith. He began searching the Scriptures and upon his reading of Moses at the burning bush was captivated on who the real God truly is.

"God said to Moses, "I AM WHO AM." And he said, "Say this to the people of Israel, 'I AM has sent me to you" (Exodus 3:14).