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for 20 years, coming down only twice a week. This pillar is a natural rock formation jutting upward from the ground to a height of approximately one hundred and forty feet. Evidence of use by stylites as late as the 15th century has been found on the top of the rock. With the aid of local villagers
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even later. For the majority of the pillar hermits, the extreme austerity of the lives of the
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may have been the first of these, for he had been a disciple of Simeon and began his rigorous way of life shortly after his master died. Daniel was a Syrian by birth but he established himself near
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stunt performed by David Blaine on 22 March 2002 was in part inspired by the Pillar-Saints, as he declared in the TV documentary about this stunt.
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for twenty-five years until his death, eating only on
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lived inside a hollow pillar rather than upon it. Nonetheless, the life was one of extraordinary endurance and privation.
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The Life of Saint Simeon
Stylites: A Translation of the Syriac in Bedjan's Acta Martyrum et Sanctorum
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