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Something wrong?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.
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Goraj Miracle of Saint Simeon Stylites (detail)
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Hl. Simeon Stylites (C) - Diözesanmuseum FS - 2023-01-27 - 404b
Katholieke Illustratie 1867-1868 - nr 51 p 404 - De H. Simeon StylitesAbout this person
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.
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