Per the vita, Hilarion visited the Holy Land and traveled with his followers through Palestine and Syria.

He visited Mount Tabor, the Jordan River and the Lavra of Saint Sabas.

[3] Hilarion would stay there for seven years living in the cave leading monastic hermitage.

Later, in 864, he founded a monastery on Mount Olympus,[4][5] possibly identified as "Lavra of Krania", which was housing largely his Georgian compatriots.

[6] The church at various times sheltered John the Iberian, Euthymius of Athos and Tornike Eristavi.