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Stylites: Simeon Stylites, Simeon Stylites the Younger, Alypius the Stylite, Joshua the Stylite, Daniel the Stylite, Luke Thaumaturgus

Stylites: Simeon Stylites, Simeon Stylites the Younger, Alypius the Stylite, Joshua the Stylite, Daniel the Stylite, Luke Thaumaturgus


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Chapters: Simeon Stylites, Simeon Stylites the Younger, Alypius the Stylite, Joshua the Stylite, Daniel the Stylite, Luke Thaumaturgus, Nikita Stylites, Luke the Stylite, Simeon Stylites Iii, Saint Rubin. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 37. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Saint Simeon Stylites or Symeon the Stylite (Arabic: ) (c. 390 2 September 459) was a Christian ascetic saint who achieved fame because he lived for 37 years on a small platform on top of a pillar near Aleppo in Syria. Several other stylites later followed his model (the Greek word style means pillar). He is known formally as Saint Simeon Stylites the Elder to distinguish him from Simeon Stylites the Younger and Simeon Stylites III. Simeon, who was born at Sisan (probably the current Turkish town of Samanda) in northern Syria, was the son of a shepherd. With the partition of the Roman Empire in 395, Syria was incorporated in what would become the Byzantine Empire and Christianity grew quickly. Reportedly under the influence of his mother Martha (who is also a saint), he developed a zeal for Christianity at the age of 13, following a lecture of the Beatitudes. He subjected himself to ever-increasing bodily austerities from an early age, especially fasting, and entered a monastery before the age of 16. On one occasion, moving nearby, he commenced a severe regimen of fasting for Great Lent and was visited by the head of the monastery, who left him some water and loaves. A number of days later, Simeon was discovered unconscious, with the water and loaves untouched. When he was brought back to the monastery, it was discovered that he had bound his waist with a girdle made of palm fronds so tightly that days of soaking were required to remove the fibres from the wound formed. At this, Simeon was requested to leave the...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=46689


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  • ISBN-13: 9781156902318
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • Sub Title: Simeon Stylites, Simeon Stylites the Younger, Alypius the Stylite, Joshua the Stylite, Daniel the Stylite, Luke Thaumaturgus
  • Width: 229 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1156902312
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 68 gr


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