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SIMEON STYLITES, ST (390-459)

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 122 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SHA-SIV
SIMEON STYLITES, ST (390-459) , the first and most famous of the Pillar-hermits (Gr. Qraos, pillar), was born in N. Syria. After having been expelled from a monastery for his excessive austerities, at thirty years of age he built a pillar six feet high on which he took up his 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 round the
capital
  of the pillar, and a ladder enabled his disciples to take him the necessaries of
life
 . From his pillar he preached and exercised a
great
  influence, converting numbers of
heathen
  and taking
part
  in ecclesiastical politics. The facts would seem incredible were they not vouched for by Theodoret, who knew him personally (Historia religiosa, c. 26). Moreover, Simeon had many imitators, well authenticated Pillar-hermits being met with till the 16th
century
 .
The standard
work
  on the subject is Les Stylites (1895), by H. Delehaye, the Bollandist; for a summary see the article " Saulenheiligge," in
Herzog
 's Realencyklopadie (ed. 3). On Simeon see Th. Noldeke's Sketches from Eastern History (1892), p. 210, and the Dictionary of Christian
Biography
 . (E. C. B.)


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