Simeon Stylites
The limestone massif in northern Syria on which the Sanctuary of Saint Simeon stands is a karst formation and an archaeological repository remarkable for the number of its ancient remains and their state of conservation, which until the end of the 20th century, had only been damaged by earthquakes.
Stylitism and pilgrimage
Simeon Stylites or Simeon the Elder (circa ) was the founder of a form of asceticism that consisted in living the life of a hermit on top of a pillar in prayer. His life is recorded in three texts: two Greek biographies and one version in Syriac. He spent some forty years at the top of a series of pillars, each one higher than the last. After his death, his body was taken to Antioch and then to Constantinople. A pilgrimage centre was built around the saint’s last pillar, with a cruciform Martyrium centred around the pillar, a monastery with its own church, a baptistry, itself flanked by a church, service buildings, and accommodation. The centre was surrounded by an enclosure wall (mandra) with a monumental gate with three entrances. To get to the sanctuary, pilgrims passed through a triumphal arch in the village of Telanissos (present-
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St. 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. If it were not that our information, in the case of the first St. Simeon and some of his imitators, is based upon very reliable first-hand evidence, we should be disposed to relegate much of what history records to the domain of fable; but no modern critic now ventures to dispute the reality of
St. Simeon Stylites the Elder
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St. 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. If it were not that our information, in the case of the first St. Simeon and some of his imitators, is based upon very reliable first-hand evidence, we should be disposed to relegate much of what history records to the domain of fable; but no modern critic now ventures to dispute the reality of the feats of endurance attributed to these ascetics. Simeon the Elder, was born about at Sisan, near the northern border of Syria. After beginning life as a shepherd boy, he entered a monastery before the age of sixteen, and from the first gave himself up to the practice of an austerity so extreme and to all appearance so extravagant, that his brethren judged him, perhaps not unwisely, to be unsuited
Simeon Stylites the Younger, Saint
SimeonStylites the Younger, Saint, b. at Antioch in , d. at the same place May 24, 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 of her son written from his pillar to Thomas, the guardian of the true cross at Jerusalem, has been printed. Like his namesake, the first Stylites, Simeon seems to have been drawn very young to a life of austerity. He attached himself to a community of ascetics living within the mandra or enclosure of another pillar-hermit, named John, who acted as their spiritual director. Simeon while still only a boy had a pillar erected for himself close to that of John. It is Simeon himself who in the above-mentioned letter to Thomas states that he was living upon a pillar when he lost his first teeth. He maintained this kind of life for 68 years. In the course of this period, however, he several times moved to a new pillar, and on the occasion of the first of these exchanges the Patriarch of Antioch and the Bishop of Seleucia ordained him deacon during the short space of time he spent upon the ground. For eight years until John died
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