Simeon Stylites

American  

[stahy-lahy-teez] / staɪˈlaɪ tiz /

noun

1. Saint, a.d. 390?–459, Syrian monk and stylite.

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Simeon Stylites British  

/ staɪˈlaɪtiːz /

noun

1. Saint. ?390–459 _ad , Syrian monk, first of the ascetics who lived on pillars. Feast day: Jan 5 or Sept 1

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Example Sentences

St. Simeon Stylites the Elder: In the 5th century, this Syrian ascetic climbed up a pillar with a tiny home on top of it.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 8, 2022

Some of the more than 400 saints: Simeon Stylites, who lived 38 years on a pillar, at first 9 ft., at last 60 ft. high.

From Time Magazine Archive

St. Simeon Stylites was a Syrian hermit who lived for 30 years atop a 60-ft. column, preaching to his disciples.

From Time Magazine Archive

To a modern eye, St. Simeon Stylites is likely to seem a kind of 5th-Century Shipwreck Kelly*�a symbol of ascetic reductio ad absurdum.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Please, Simeon Stylites, yer ain't thanked me yet for bringin' Connie along."

From Sue, A Little Heroine by Meade, L. T.