Religious History (Philotheos historia)

Theodoret · 440 · Before the division · public-domain-original

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Thirty lives of Syrian ascetics by a bishop who had grown up among them and had seen several of them himself. Chapter 26 is Simeon Stylites, written while Simeon was still standing on the pillar — the rarest thing a hagiography can be, a contemporary eyewitness notice.