In the flood of christian ascetics who left the world to seek God alone, Simeon chose a novel withdrawal.
Three views of the Stylite in three lives..
Public issues were mediated at his shrine and slaves manumitted.
To him came supplicants with all kinds of problems: personal anguish, sickness and pain, infertility, sin, and social transgression.
He mounted a pillar and remained there the rest of his life.
In the flood of christian ascetics who left the world to seek God alone, Simeon chose a novel withdrawal