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	St. Simeon Stylites the Elder
		Simeon was the first and probably the most famous of the long succession of stylitoe, or "pillar-hermits", who during more than six centuries acquired by their strange form of asceticism a great reputation for holiness throughout eastern Christendom.
		Simeon the Elder, was born about 388 at Sisan, near the northern border of Syria.
		Simeon had a pillar erected with a small platform at the top, and upon this he determined to take up his abode until death released him.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/s/simeon_stylites_elder,saint.html (825 words)

	St. Simeon Stylites the Younger
		His father was a native of Edessa, his mother, named Martha was afterwards revered as a saint and a life of her, which incorporates a letter to her son written from his pillar to Thomas, the guardian of the true cross at Jerusalem, has been printed.
		Simeon the younger was ordained priest and was thus able to offer the Holy Sacrifice in memory of his mother.
		Simeon Stylites III, another pillar hermit, who also bore the name Simeon, is honoured by both the Greeks and the Copts.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/s/simeon_stylites_younger,saint.html (615 words)

	Compass Vol. 14 #2, Saint (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Simeon the Stylite was born in 389 at Sis, a village near the border between Syria and Cilicia.
		Simeon the Stylite had hundreds of followers--a fact we tend to forget, one such life seeming to us to be perhaps more than enough.
		Stylitism was popular from the fifth century to the seventh, and again in the tenth and eleventh centuries.
	gvanv.com.cob-web.org:8888 /compass/arch/v1402/saint.html (784 words)

	Saint Simeon Stylites \| Catholic-Pages.com
		Simeon was born near Nicopolis in northern Syria around 389 A.D. shepherd in youth, he entered the monastic life at Teleda around 411 A.D. Ten years later he migrated to the mountains east of Antioch in Syria.
		Simeon, however had to be patient; it took his fellow monks two years to fashion a 9 foot platform out of the native limestone.
		Simeon Stylites is only thought to be uselessly eccentric by those who are ignorant of the great work which he accomplished during his life; fruits which could not be wrought by mere human effort but through the Divine Goodness.
	www.catholic-pages.com /saints/st_simeon_stylites.asp (2358 words)

	Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of January 5
		It's a good thing that Simeon was not permanently chained to that rock, or he would not have been able to escape the numerous visitors that interrupted his solitude, visitors that went so far as to snip off a piece of his tunic to keep as a relic.
		Simeon was full of kindliness and sympathy, and his discourses were marked by practical common sense and freedom from fanaticism.
		Simeon was the first of many stylites, who found that life at the top of a column offered unexpected advantages: it was conducive to the stability that was so dear to the hearts of monks in retreat; and it added to his ascetic sufferings.
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0105.htm (3562 words)

	Patron Saints Index: Saint Simeon Stylites the Younger
		Simeon's father died when the boy was five years old, and he became the ward of a monk named John who lived nearby.
		When Simeon was seven, the two moved onto platforms at the top of pillars in order to ensure their solitude.
		Simeon celebrated Mass on his platform, and the monks climbed a ladder to receive Communion.
	www.catholic-forum.com /saints/saints14.htm (158 words)

	Illuminating Lives: Simeon Stylites
		Simeon is called "Stylites", meaning "pillar-dweller", because of the pillar on which he lived for about thirty-five years.
		Simeon was born near the end of the fourth century in what is today Syria.
		So Simeon went out on his own in search of the holy life; after experimenting with various uncomfortable living conditions, including the open air, a domed hut, and a circular enclosure of stones, he ascended the first of a series of increasingly higher pillars.
	www.mcs.drexel.edu /~gbrandal/Illum_html/Simeon.html (709 words)

	Simeon on the pillar
		Stylites were solitaries who, taking up their abode upon the tops of a pillar (stylos), chose to spend their days amid the restraints thus entailed and in the exercise of other forms of asceticism.
		This practice may be regarded as the climax of a tendency which became very pronounced in Eastern lands in the latter part of the fourth century.
		Daniel Stylites may have been the first of these, for he had been a disciple of St. Simeon and began his rigorous way of life shortly after his master died.
	www.southwestern.edu /ACS/latin/team13/simeon_on_the_pillar.htm (460 words)

	Adventist Review: Simeon Stylites and Seventh-day Adventists
		That's the way it was in the fifth century when Simeon Stylites lived; except that the sheeplike people in his day were influenced by Plato, who taught that body and soul are enemies and that if one is strong, the other will be weak.
		Simeon figured that the best place to get away from all this was 70 feet up the air, so up he went.
		Simeon Stylites knew exactly why he was on the top of the column.
	www.adventistreview.org /2005-1522/story1.html (1237 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: Evagrius: St. Simeon Stylites from Ecclesiastical History, I.13
		Simeon prolonged his endurance of this mode of life through fifty-six years; nine of which he spent in the first monastery where he was instructed in divine knowledge, and forty-seven in the "Mandra" as it was called; namely, ten in a certain nook; on shorter columns, seven; and thirty upon one of forty cubits.
		After his departure [from this life] his holy body was conveyed to Antioch, escorted by the garrison, and a great concourse guarding the venerable body, lest the inhabitants of the neighboring cities should gather and carry it off.
		It is alleged that the devil having afflicted him with an ulcer in his thigh as reward for a little self-righteousness, Simeon, as penance, never touched the afflicted leg upon the pillar again, and stood for the remaining year of his life upon one leg.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/evagrius-simeon.html (572 words)

	Venerable Simeon Stylites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		aint Simeon was born into a poor family living in the Antioch area of Syria in the middle of the 4
		Simeon began to pray ardently asking God for the way to attain true righteousness.
		Venerable Simeon enlightened the queen and she again became an Orthodox Christian.
	www.fatheralexander.org /booklets/english/saints/simeon_stylites.htm (609 words)

	St. Simeon Stylites (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Simeon stands— or sits, or perches— as the pure contemplative, the eagle up aloft in his eyrie gazing at the sun, the look-out man in the crow’s nest.
		Simeon is myself as I would like to be, if I had the heroism of the saint instead of the cowardice of the sinner.
		Simeon was not winged, but he had done his best to get away from earth; he was not ten feet high, but he had managed to get higher still.
	www.panmodern.com.cob-web.org:8888 /simeon.html (4044 words)

	St. Simon Stylites Simeon January 5 @ Tradition In Action.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Simeon was born at Sisan near the northern border of Syria and began life as a shepherd boy for his father’s flock of sheep.
		The life of St. Simeon Stylites is one of those marvelous facts that happened in the first centuries of the life of the Church.
		Simeon had the mission to show the entire Church the value of solitude and isolation.
	www.traditioninaction.org /SOD/j055sdsimeon1-5.htm (1247 words)

	Stylites - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There seems no reason to doubt that it was the ascetical spirit manifested in such examples as these which spurred men on to devise new and more ingenious forms of self-crucifixion and which in 423 led Simeon Stylites the Elder first of all to take up his abode on the top of a pillar.
		Daniel the Stylite may have been the first of these, for he had been a disciple of Simeon and began his rigorous way of life shortly after his master died.
		Simeon the Younger, like his namesake, lived near Antioch; he died in 596, and had for a contemporary a hardly less famous Stylites in Alypius, whose pillar had been erected near Adrianople in Paphlagonia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stylites (542 words)

	Simeon Stylites, Saint - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Simeon Stylites, Saint [Gr.,= of a pillar], d.
		He had many imitators (called stylites) and gained the reverence of the whole Christian world.
		Simeon Stylites, St A Dictionary of World Mythology; 1/1/1997; ARTHUR COTTERELL; 174 words
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-simeonst.html (229 words)

	St. Simeon Stylites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Simeon was a Syrian; in his youth he had disciplined himself so severely in a monastery that the abbot dismissed him; he then became a cave- and mountain-dwelling hermit, passing the whole of Lent without sustenance.
		Finally in an (unsuccessful) attempt to elude the many visitors who came to him seeking spiritual advice, he took to pillars, beginning at a height of 9' and gradually increasing to one of 60' on which he spent the last 20 years of his life, repeatedly prostrating himself in prayer.
		A church and monastery were built near the site of his column, and some remains of these still exist today.
	www.hullp.demon.co.uk /SacredHeart/saint/StSimeonStylites.htm (168 words)

	Simeon Stylites - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		St Simeon Stylites or Symeon the Stylite (390 – 459), Christian saint, was born at Sisan in northern Syria.
		Simeon is said to have corresponded with St Bernadette of Paris.
		After spending 37 years on his pillar, Simeon died on 2 September 459.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Simeon_Stylites (758 words)

	Simeon Stylites Saint: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		As Simeon Vailhe expressed...of a church for Saint Stephen and that...651.
		"St. Simeon Stylites" and Psychiatry But what is...an article on Tennysons St. Simeon Stylites," which draw on the work of...Lovers Tale, In Memoriam, St. Simeon Stylites," "Lucretius," Maud, The Princess...
		SIMEON STYLITES, SAINT stili tez Gr.,= of a pillar, d.
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/simeon_stylites_saint.jsp (771 words)

	St Simeon Stylites
		'Stylos' is the Greek for 'pillar', and Stylitism (living the life of a recluse on a pillar top in order to dedicate yourself completely to God) became a popular movement from the fifth to seventh centuries and again in the tenth and eleventh.
		Simeon spent his nights in prayer and preached to the many pilgrims who visited him during the day.
		After his death, pilgrims continued to flock to the site of his pillar, and in 472 building began on the great basilica, commissioned by the Emperor Zeno (474-491), which still remains today and which contains what is left of the pillar.
	www.sln.org.uk /re/syria/p20.htm (113 words)

	ST SIMEON STYLITES : The Christian Saint...
		He started life as a poor shepherd on the borders of Syria, and at the age of thirteen lay outside the gates of a monastery refusing to eat or drink until they admitted him as a lowly novice.
		When the other monks discovered it wasn't the drains causing the odours, Simeon was dismissed rather rapidly.
		Not knowing how long Simeon's arms were we cannot tell you the exact height — but it is possible the pillar is still there somewhere in Syria.
	www.godchecker.com /saints/index.php?ST=SIMEON-STYLITES (419 words)

	Church of St. Simeon. Syria - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		He withdrew from a monastery near Antioch and in 423 took up residence on a very small platform atop a stone pillar, which fact accounts for his name, Stylites (Greek, "of a pillar").
		After leaving this structure, which was about 1.8 m (about 6 ft) high, he lived on a succession of pillars, each higher than its predecessor.
		He converted many nonbelievers to Christianity and had numerous disciples called Stylites.
	www.galenfrysinger.com /st_simeon_syria.htm (149 words)

	Works Cited
		The author analyzises the poem Saint Simeon Stylites with the Penitential Psalms and discusses symbolism and Simeon's reaction to his own sins.
		Appears to be targeted to the kind of audience who would watch PBS or would be shown the video in a high school or college setting.
		This is basically the story of saint Simeon and his life atop a pillar for thirty-five years.
	www.southwestern.edu /ACS/latin/team13/works_cited.htm (271 words)

	Saint Simeon Stylites
		King Abgar IX of Edessa (179-212 AD) renounced the official religion of the Parthian empire, converted to the Faith, was baptised in 206 AD and thus became the world's first Christian sovereign of a state.
		Saint Simeon Stylites, (left), shown at the moment when to test the authenticity of the vocation he had already been living for many years, was called down from his pillar by Church authorities.
		He immediately moved to come down, and thereby to manifest his submission; upon which he was told to remain there because his willing obedience was proof that his way of life was indeed from God.
	www.redemptorists.org.uk /red/mag/syrian1.htm (180 words)

	January 5, Every-Day Book
		Multitudes thronged to the mountain to receive his benediction, and many of the sick recovered their health; But as some were not satisfied unless they touched him in his enclosure, and Simeon desired retirement from the daily concourse, he projected a new and unprecedented manner of life.
		A woman swallowed a little serpent, which tormented her for many years, till she came to Simeon, who causing earth and water to be laid on her mouth, the little serpent came out four feet and a half long.
		the patriarch of Antioch taking Simeon's beard to put among his relics, his hand withered, and remained so till multitudes of prayers were said for him, and it was healed: and that more miracles were worked at and after Simeon's sepulture, than he had wrought all his life.
	www.uab.edu /english/hone/etexts/edb/day-pages/005-january05.html (1966 words)

	ST. SIMEON STYLITES CURES THE SNAKE: Religious Fables, Folklore, Legends, and Stories: All Creatures Articles Archive - ...
		Christians of the first centuries frequently left for deserts to live there so that they would be far from temporal vanity, and so that they could be closer to God.
		One of them was St. Simeon, who lived in the 5th century.
		And when the eye recovered absolutely, the snakes made for his former hole, and people began to visit St. Simeon without fear, being surprised at this miracle.
	www.all-creatures.org /articles/rf-stsimon.html (412 words)

	ST SIMEON STYLITES (39... - Online Information article about ST SIMEON STYLITES (39... (via CobWeb/3.1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		SIMEON STYLITES, ST (390-459), the first and most famous of the See also:
		Moreover, Simeon had many imitators, well authenticated Pillar-hermits being met with till the 16th See also:
		Les Stylites (1895), by H. Delehaye, the Bollandist; for a See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org.cob-web.org:8888 /SHA_SIV/SIMEON_STYLITES_ST_390_459_.html (298 words)

	Saint Simeon Stylites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Perfection was all in all to St. Simeon; the means nothing, except in so far as God chose them for him.
		The solitaries of Egypt were suspicious of a life so new and so strange, and they sent one of their number to bid St. Simeon come down from his pillar and return to the common life.
		Extraordinary as the life of St. Simeon may appear, it teaches us two plain and practical lessons: First, we must constantly renew within ourselves an intense desire for perfection.
	www.jesus-passion.com /saint_simeon_stylites.htm (418 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Simeon Stylites the Elder
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		The preference was given to Antioch, and the greater part of his relics were left there as a protection to the unwalled city.
		St. Simeon's life is principally known to us from an account by THEODORET, who was a contemporary; also from the biography of a disciple Antonius and from a more or less independent Syriac source.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13795a.htm (834 words)

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