It represents St. Simeon the stylite atop his pillar with details of his bare ribs and naked body showing. |
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But within ten months he was permitted to set out for the Holy Land, with the blessing of a nearby stylite. |
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Known as a stylite, or one who lives on a pillar, he virtually impaled himself physically for a lifetime but thereby gained spiritual eternity. |
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He was called Simeon the Elder to distinguish him from a 6th-century stylite also named Simeon. |
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The dancers has suggested to inhabitants joining them at the top of a column for beccoming a stylite, or to be hoisted by a rope to be full sky, and so to feel yje empty space and to change their point of view on their city. |
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Daniel, the famous stylite of the city, actually descended from his pillar for the first time in fifteen years, terrifying Basiliscus into the withdrawal of his edict. |
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Joshua the Stylite, Philagathos' De siccitate, and Synesius of Cyrene's Catastasis. |
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