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Simeon Stylites

[ stahy-lahy-teez ]

noun

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


Simeon Stylites

/ staɪˈlaɪtiːz /

noun

  1. Simeon Stylites, Saint?390459MSyrianRELIGION: monkMISC: asceticRELIGION: saint 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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St. Simeon Stylites the Elder: In the 5th century, this Syrian ascetic climbed up a pillar with a tiny home on top of it.

She set a precedent for attention-craving ascetics such as St Simeon Stylites, who lived for 37 years on top of a pillar near Aleppo and was the subject of Buñuel’s Simon of the Desert.

Simeon Stylites — a Takoma Park resident who makes severe electronic soundscapes under a stage-name borrowed from an ancient Syriac ascetic saint — will give his first performance at RhizomeDC on Saturday, but says that the venue has already become a haunt for those eager to flex their heads.

Today he considers himself a global citizen, he says, but he grew up in a “little village with farmers” and was not ready for the impact of seeing archeological wonders such as Palmyra, or the old Byzantine Church of Saint Simeon Stylites.

Closer still is the magnificent basilica of St Simeon Stylites, the ascetic who lived for years on top of a 12m column, the remains of which lie in the centre of the site.

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