Simeon Stylites
Christian ascetic saint
b. c. 389 · d. 2 Sep 459
Simeon Stylites or Symeon the Stylite was a Syrian Christian ascetic who achieved notability by living 36 years on top of a pillar near Aleppo. Several other stylites later followed his model. Simeon is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church, Oriental Orthodox Churches, and the Eastern Orthodox Church. He is known formally as Simeon Stylites the Elder to distinguish him from Simeon Stylites the Younger, Simeon Stylites III and Symeon Stylites of Lesbos.
Related people
- Theodosius the Cenobiarch teacher of · traditional
- Antonius teacher of · traditional
Events
Commemorated
Places
- Kozan birth
- Telanissos death
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- Religious History (Philotheos historia) 1 claim — Simeon ascends the pillar