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His episcopal seat is famed to be the area where the village is today called Hrisi (Greek: Χρυσή) in Greece. This area was full of Armenian and Βογόμιλους monophysites. Through his teaching and discussions, he managed to convert many of the monophysites back to the church.
He is also famous for establishing a monastery in the area dedicated to the Apostles. The synaxarion does not distinguish if this was for the Holy 12 Apostles or merely the Peter and Paul. This clarification has been found through an archaeological artifacts Markianos Code, Code 524, dating to the 13th century and the Markianos Code 524. Further information on the life of the saint and a detailed explanation surrounding the founding This text is in Greek and running of this monastery only exists in the Greek language and has not been translated at present.
This code describes the death of the Saint . Ilarion pre-empted the time of his own death and prepared the brotherhood for his departure. His disciple, of many years, monk Peter, was blessed by Ilarios to take his place as Abbott of the monastery upon his repose. He had a peaceful death and as founder and builder of the monastery was given an honourary burial service and place of honour. It is noted in this code, that his all-holy relics, streamed myrrh from his eyes and he would appear in visions to the monks he would weaken in their monastic duties.
His holy-relics were forcefully translated from the monastery sometime during 1204 by the Bulgarian Tsar Ioannis Asanis to the Church of the 40-saints in his country.
