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Saint Simeon the Stylite was born in the Cappadocian village of Sisan of Christian parents, Sisotian and Martha. At thirteen years of age he began to tend his father’s flock of sheep. He devoted himself attentively and with love to this, his first obedience.
Once, after he heard the Beatitudes in church, he was struck by their profundity. Not trusting to his own immature judgment, he turned therefore with his questions to an experienced Elder. The Elder readily explained to the boy the meaning of what he had heard. The seed fell on good soil, and it strengthened his resolve to serve God.
When Simeon was eighteen, he received monastic tonsure and devoted himself to feats of the strictest abstinence and unceasing prayer. His zeal, beyond the strength of the other monastic brethren, so alarmed the igumen that he told Simeon that to either moderate his ascetic deeds or leave the monastery.
Saint Simeon then withdrew from the monastery and lived in an empty well in the nearby mountains, where he was able to carry out his austere struggles unhindered. After some time, angels appeared in a dream to the igumen, who commanded him to bring back Simeo
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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 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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