stylite

NOUN
  1. an early Christian ascetic who lived on top of high pillars
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  • Simeon, like many of the stylites, was completely orthodox in his theology.
  • It represents St. Simeon the stylite atop his pillar with details of his bare ribs and naked body showing.
  • Chapter began with a reading about Simeon Stylites, the saint whose feast day it was. The Pillars of the Earth
  • In the fourth century, another hermit, Simeon Stylites, sat atop a pillar day and night for 36 years, attracting crowds of sightseers and acolytes. Open Seas
  • Simeon Stylites kitteh comtenplayts de wurld etsettra updaeted vershun. Today teh scratchin post… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • At the end of the rite, however, the patriarch ascended to give Holy Communion to the stylite and to receive it from him. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
  • Watching him, I can't help but think of the stylites, fanatical Christian monks of the Middle Ages who would plant themselves atop columns in the desert and stay there for weeks and months.
  • Known as a stylite, or one who lives on a pillar, he virtually impaled himself physically for a lifetime but thereby gained spiritual eternity.
  • Soon the report of this extraordinary existence spread from village to village, and the labourers of the valley came on Sundays, with their wives and children, to look at the stylite. Thais
  • There was a time a "stylite" was a saint who lived atop a pillar or a post in some forsaken desert. Knocking From Inside
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