Saint Simeon Stylites
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- Memorial
- 5 January
- Profile
- Son of a poor shepherd, and worked as a shepherd as a child.
A would-be monk at age 13, he was turned away from monasteries because his severe self-imposed penances.
Tired of the gossip and arguments from fellow religious, he lived as a hermit on top of a column, occasionally preaching to those who gathered to watch and pray with him, and starting a movement of pillar living among Eastern hermits.
- Born
- c.390 at Cilicia, near Syria
- Died
- c.459 of natural causes
- Name Meaning
- column ( = stulos Greek)
- Canonized
- Pre-Congregation
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