h, which is unchangeable, faith is lost; they correct and
amend, till weary of all, they condemn all. He therefore exhorts them to
return to the haven from which the gusts of their party spirit and
prejudice had driven them, as the only means to be delivered out of
their tempestuous and perilous confusion. The issue of this challenge
was, that the Arians, dreading such a trial, persuaded the emperor to
rid the East of a man that never ceased to disturb its peace, by sending
him back into Gaul; which he did, but without reversing the sentence of
his banishment, in 360.

St. Hilary returned through Illyricum and Italy to confirm the weak. He
was received at Poictiers with the greatest demonstrations of joy and
triumph, where his old disciple, St. Martin, rejoined him, to pursue the
exercises of piety under his direction. A synod in Gaul, convoked at the
instance of St. Hilary, condemned that of Rimini, which, in 359, had
omitted the word _Consubstantial_. Saturninus, proving obstinate, was
excommunicated and deposed for his heresy and other crimes. Scandals
were removed, discipline, peace, and purity of faith were restored, and
piety flourished. The death of Constantius put an end to the Arian
persecution. St. Hilary was the mildest of men, full of condescension
and affability to all: yet seeing this behavior ineffectual, he composed
an invective against Constantius, in which he employed severity, and the
harshest terms; and for which undoubtedly he had reasons that are
unknown to us. This piece did not appear abroad till after the death of
that emperor. Our saint undertook a journey to Milan, in 364, against
Auxentius, the Arian usurper of that see, and in a public disputation
obliged him to confess Christ to be true God, of the same substance and
divinity with the Father. St. Hilary indeed saw through his hypocrisy;
but this dissembling heretic imposed so far on the emperor Valentinian,
as to pass for orthodox. Our saint died at Poictiers, in the year 368,
on the thirteenth of January, or on the first of November, for his name
occurs in very ancient Martyrologies on both these days. In the Roman
breviary his office is celebrated on the fourteenth of January. The one
is probably that of some translation of his relics. The first was made
at Poictiers in the reign of Clovis I., on which see Cointe.[23] From
St. Gregory of Tours, it appears that before his time some part of St.
Hilary's relics was honored in a church in Limo