ST See also:

• SIMEON
• SIMEON (or SYMEON) OF DURHAM (d. after 1129)
• SIMEON, JOSEPH JEROME, COMTE (1749–1842)

SIMEON STYLITES (390-459)  , the first and most famous of the See also:

• PILLAR (0. Fr. piler, Mod. pilier, Late Lat. pilare, from pila, column)

Pillar-hermits (Gr . Qraos, pillar), was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in N . See also:

• SYRIA

Syria . After having been expelled from a monastery for his excessive austerities, at See also:

• THIRTY

thirty years of See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age he built a pillar six feet high on which he took up his See also:

• ABODE (from " abide," to dwell, properly " to wait for ," to bide)

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 (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round the See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital of the pillar, and a See also:

• LADDER, (0. Eng. hlaeder; of Teutonic origin, cf. Dutch leer, Ger. Leiter; the ultimate origin is in the root seen in " lean," Or. KNiµat)

ladder enabled his disciples to take him the necessaries of See also:

• LIFE

life . From his pillar he preached and exercised a See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence, converting See also:

• NUMBERS, BOOK OF
• NUMBERS, PARTITION OF

numbers of See also:

• HEATHEN

heathen and taking See also:

• PART

part in ecclesiastical politics . The facts would seem incredible were they not vouched for by See also:

• THEODORET

Theodoret, who knew him personally (Historia religiosa, c . 26) . Moreover, See also:

• SIMEON
• SIMEON (or SYMEON) OF DURHAM (d. after 1129)
• SIMEON, JOSEPH JEROME, COMTE (1749–1842)

Simeon had many imitators, well authenticated Pillar-hermits being met with till the 16th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . The See also:

• STANDARD
• STANDARD, BATTLE OF THE

standard See also:

• WORK

work on the subject is See also:

• LES

Les Stylites (1895), by H .

Delehaye, the Bollandist; for a See also:

• SUMMARY

summary see the See also:

• ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article " Saulenheiligge," in See also:

• HERZOG, HANS (1819–1894)
• HERZOG, JOHANN JAKOB (1805-1882)

Herzog's Realencyklopadie (ed . 3) . On Simeon see Th . See also:

• NOLDEKE
• NOLDEKE, THEODOR (1836— )

Noldeke's Sketches from Eastern See also:

• HISTORY

History (1892), p . 210, and the See also:

• DICTIONARY

Dictionary of See also:

• CHRISTIAN
• CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM (1608-1663)

Christian See also:

• BIOGRAPHY (from the Gr. (3ios, life, and yp&4 , writing)

Biography . (E . C .