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In December 1929, he was transferred to Alma-Ata in Central Asia for a term of three years. Traveling under guard, he arrived in Leningrad, in rags after being robbed on the way, infested with parasites, and very sick with typhus. Lying in the Leningrad prison he wrote "on Saturday, [[December 28]], my fate will be decided (the crisis of the illness). I am unlikely to survive.” When told that he needed to be shaved, he replied, "You may now do with me whatever you wish." Our confessor of Christ died on December 28, 1929, at the age of forty four.
After obtaining permission to take his body for burial, Metr. [[Seraphim (Chichagov)of Leningrad and Gdovsk|Seraphim (Chichagov)]], who occupied the Leningrad [[see]] at the time, brought white hierarchical [[vestments]] and a white [[miter]] to the prison hospital. They vested him and took him to the church at the Novodevichy Monastery in Leningrad for the funeral and burial services in which Metr. Seraphim and Abp. Alexei, Bps. Ambrose (Libin) of Luga, Sergius (Zenkevich) of Lodeinoe Polye, and three other bishops participated.
On [[May 10]], 1999, Holy Hieromartyr Hilarion, Archbishop of Verey, was [[glorification|glorified]] as a [[saint]] by the Moscow [[Patriarchate]] of the [[Russian Orthodox Church]]. On the eve of his canonization, the Holy Hieromartyr’s [[relics]] were translated from St. Petersburg to Moscow and placed in the church of the Sretensky Monastery.
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