The Life of S. Hilarion 99

Jerome · The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Series II Volume VI: Jerome: The Principal Works of St. Jerome by Philip Schaff

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9. From his sixteenth to his twentieth year he shielded himself from heat and rain in a little hut which he had constructed of reeds and sedge. Afterwards he built himself a small cell which remains to the present day, five feet in height, that is less than his own height, and only a little more in length. One might suppose it a tomb rather than a house.