Saints

A truly amazing ascetic, Simeon began his life as a Syrian shepard, joining a monastery at age thirteen. Dissatisfied with the amature level of self-mortification, Simeon moved to a different monastery famous for its severity. There, he outfasted all the other monks by eating only once a week and almost died when a rope of twisted palm bound too tightly around his waist putrefied and had to be surgically removed.
Simeon decided to establish himself where no one could reach him: atop a pillar that he rasied progressively higher as the years passed. When he was thirty-two, the pillar he inhabited was approximatly nine feet tall; by the end of his life he stood atop a pillar sixty feet high and six feet wide. Loathe to sit or lie down, except in a weekend state from prolonged fasting. Simeon wore an iron collar and rested by stooping or leaning.
A commanding preacher, Simeon stood at his post and prayed continuously, teaching justice and patience to and ever-growing following from the Near East.

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