SIMEON STYLITES, SAINT

stīlīˈtēz [Gr.,= of a pillar], d. 459?, Syrian hermit. He lived for more than 35 years on a small platform on top of a high pillar. He had many imitators (called stylites) and gained the reverence of the whole Christian world. Feast: Jan. 5.

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The Lady as Saint: A Collection of French Hagiographic Romances of the Thirteenth Century
Book by Brigitte Cazelles; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991
Subjects: Christian Women Saints--Romances, French Poetry--To 1500--Translations Into English
...the romances" 1971, 111 . 43. The Romance of Saint Alexis was edited by G. Paris and L. Pannier in...solitude is best exemplified, in the Vitae Patrum , by Simeon Stylites . The hero asks to be chained to a rock at the top of...
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Forerunners of Saint Francis and Other Studies
Book by Ellen Scott Davison, Gertrude R. B. Richards; Houghton Mifflin Company, 1927
Subjects: Church History--Middle Ages, France--Social Life And Customs, Monasticism And Religious Orders--Middle Ages
FORERUNNERS OF SAINT FRANCIS And Other Studies FORERUNNERS OF SAINT FRANCIS And Other Studies BY ELLEN SCOTT...groups: the one centering about the forerunners of Saint Francis of Assisi the theme of her doctoral dissertation...
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Apologist
Book by Margaret A. Schatkin, Paul W. Harkins; Catholic University of America Press, 1985
Subjects: Apologetics--Early Works To 1800, Babylas--Of Antioch, Saint, Jesus Christ--Divinity
...Talaska John J. Dillon Editorial Assistants SAINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOM APOLOGIST Translated...CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA John Chrysostom, Saint, d. 407. Apologist. (Fathers of the church...church, ca. 30-600. 3. Babylas, of Antioch, Saint. I. John Chrysostom, Saint, d. 407. Pros...
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The Virgin Goddess: Studies in the Pagan and Christian Roots of Mariology
Book by S. Benko; Brill, 2004
Subjects: Christianity And Other Religions--Roman, Goddesses--Rome, Mary--Blessed Virgin, Saint--History Of Doctrines--Early Church, Ca. 30-600, Rome--Religion
...90-04-13639-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) l. Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint- -History of doctrines Early church, ca. 30-600. 2. Goddesses...Tanit en Pheniicie, Melanges de la Faculte Orientale Universite Saint Joseph 5 (1912) 75-83; G. Charles-Picard, Les Religions De...
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Monasticism: Its Ideals and History, and the Confessions of St. Augustine
Book by Adolf Harnack, E. E. Kellett, F. H. Marseille; Williams & Norgate, 1901
Subjects: Augustine--Saint, Bishop Of Hippo--Confessiones, Monasticism And Religious Orders
...once-anathe matised name of that honest saint, Martin of Tours, came into high repute...most loveable of all monks, the quaint saint of Assisi, stands out brilliantly in...the priest and the Sacrament. But the saint of Assisi was the most submissive son...
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journal articles on: Simeon Stylites Saint  - 5 results

 
 
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Claims on the Bones of Saint Stephen: the Partisans of Melania and Eudocia
Journal article by Elizabeth A. Clark; Church History, Vol. 51, 1982
Subjects: Church History
...persuasions of the saint Simeon Stylites and the abbot...two decades? As Simeon Vailhe expressed...of a church for Saint Stephen and that...651. 97 Simeon Vailhe, Les Monasteres et les eglises Saint-Etienne a Jeusalem...
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"Vision" in "The Holy Grail": Tennyson's Theistic Skepticism
Journal article by James R. Bennett; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 75, 1996
Subjects: English poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Tennyson, Alfred Lord--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Holy Grail (Poem)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...personal sense of Jesus. "St. Simeon Stylites" and Psychiatry But what is...an article on Tennysons St. Simeon Stylites," which draw on the work of...Lovers Tale, In Memoriam, St. Simeon Stylites," "Lucretius," Maud, The Princess...
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Spurring an Imitative Will: The Canonization of Arthur Hallam
Journal article by Devon Fisher; Christianity and Literature, Vol. 55, 2006
Subjects: Christian literature--Criticism and interpretation, Hallam, Arthur Henry--Criticism and interpretation, Hallam, Arthur Henry--Works
...secularized version of the saint out of Arthur Hallam...Tennyson reading "St. Simeon Stylites" with "grotesque Grimness...maintains the form of the saint but secularizes it, presenting...presented the canonized saint to Tennyson as an aesthetic...
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"I Sit as God": Aestheticism and Repentance in Tennyson's "The Palace of Art"
Journal article by Larry Brunner; Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature, Vol. 56, 2003
Subjects: English literature, English literature--Criticism and interpretation
...intellectual display and misuse of art, which Tennyson dislikes as thoroughly as he does asceticism (compare "St. Simeon Stylites"). The poem defines its subject as the experience of a "sinful soul possessd of many gifts," investing itself in...
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Recent Studies in the English Renaissance
Journal article by Anne Ferry; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 33, 1993
Subjects: Literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Renaissance--Bibliography
...which looks as far forward as the 1970s, the net is made so wide or loose that it can even include Tennysons "Saint Simeon Stylites," which seems stretching the term liturgical beyond any usefulness. Harold Skulskys Language Recreated: Seventeenth-Century...


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Samuel Demands the Muse: Johnson's Stamp on Imaginative Literature
Magazine article by Jeffrey Meyers; The Antioch Review, Vol. 65, Winter 2007
Subjects: Authors, English--Influence, Authors, English--Works, English writers--Influence, English writers--Works, Johnson, Samuel (English writer)--Influence, Johnson, Samuel (English writer)--Works
...and mood Boswell portrayed Johnson as a latter-day St. Simeon Stylites, standing bareheaded in wet weather on the guilty spot...only one obscure, anonymous review about Johnson. In "Saint Samuel of Fleet Street" (1925), the sharp-tongued, hypercritical...


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encyclopedia articles on: Simeon Stylites Saint  - 2 results

 
 
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Simeon Stylites, Saint
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
SIMEON STYLITES, SAINT sim eon stili tez Gr.,= of a pillar, d. 459?, Syrian hermit. He lived...small platform on top of a high pillar. He had many imitators (called stylites) and gained the reverence of the whole Christian world. Feast: Jan...
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Monasticism
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...extravagances of much of early monasticism (see, e.g., Simeon Stylites, Saint ). Monasticism in the East has changed little since...civilization of the West is incalculable (see Boniface, Saint , d.754). Monasteries were islands of stability, and...


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