# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/simeon-stylites
# Generated: 2026-09-01T12:46:22.304Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/simeon-stylites"
name: "Simeon Stylites"
slug: "simeon-stylites"
description: "A Syrian ascetic who spent 36 years living on top of a pillar near Aleppo — a feat of endurance so extreme it spawned imitators and a word for the practice itself."
tagline: "Christian ascetic saint"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Simeon_Stylites_(Syria).jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "389"
deathDate: "0459-09-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.67
  momentum:             0.4749073762209498
  historical:           23.49572533333334
  currentAttention:     2.63837431233861
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
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  - name: "Literature"
    slug: "literature"
  - name: "Religion"
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  - name: "Ancient History"
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    title: "Симеон Стълпник"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Symeon Stylites der Ältere"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Šimun Stilit"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Idősebb Oszlopos Szent Simeon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "登塔者シメオン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Svētais Simeons Stilīts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Simeon was a Christian ascetic in fifth-century Syria who took self-denial to a height no one had attempted before. Around 423, he climbed onto a pillar and stayed there for the next 36 years, preaching and praying from his perch near Aleppo until his death on 2 September 459. The spectacle drew pilgrims, skeptics, and eventually a string of imitators — later stylites who copied his model of vertical isolation. The Greek word for pillar, style, became shorthand for the movement he began. He is venerated as a saint across Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Oriental Orthodox traditions, and known formally as Simeon Stylites the Elder to separate him from the younger men who followed him up.