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ST See also:SIMEON STYLITES (390-459) , the first and most famous of the See also:Pillar-hermits (Gr . Qraos, pillar), was See also:born in N . See also:Syria . After having been expelled from a monastery for his excessive austerities, at See also:thirty years of See also:age he built a pillar six feet high on which he took up his See also:abode . He made new pillars higher and higher, till after ten years he reached the height of sixty feet . On this pillar he lived for thirty years without ever descending . A railing ran See also:round the See also:capital of the pillar, and a See also:ladder enabled his disciples to take him the necessaries of See also:life . From his pillar he preached and exercised a See also:great See also:influence, converting See also:numbers of See also:heathen and taking See also:part in ecclesiastical politics . The facts would seem incredible were they not vouched for by See also:Theodoret, who knew him personally (Historia religiosa, c . 26) . Moreover, See also:Simeon had many imitators, well authenticated Pillar-hermits being met with till the 16th See also:century . The See also:standard See also:work on the subject is See also:Les Stylites (1895), by H . Delehaye, the Bollandist; for a See also:summary see the See also:article " Saulenheiligge," in See also:Herzog's Realencyklopadie (ed . 3) . On Simeon see Th . See also:Noldeke's Sketches from Eastern See also:History (1892), p . 210, and the See also:Dictionary of See also:Christian See also:Biography . (E . C . |
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