A stylite (Ancient Greek: στυλίτης (stylitēs) 'pillar dweller', derived from στῦλος (stȳlos) 'pillar' and Classical Syriac: ܐܣܛܘܢܝܐ (astˁonāyā)) or pillar-saint...

Simeon Stylites or Symeon the Stylite (Greek: Συμεών ό Στυλίτης; Syriac: ܫܡܥܘܢ ܕܐܣܛܘܢܐ, romanized: Šimʕun dʼAstˁonā; Arabic: سمعان العمودي, romanized: Simʿān...

Daniel the Stylite (Greek: Δανιὴλ ὁ στυλίτης, c. 409 – 493) is a saint and stylite of the Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Eastern Catholic Churches...

Joshua the Stylite (also spelled Yeshu Stylite and Ieshu Stylite) is the attributed author of a chronicle which narrates the history of the war between...

The Church of Saint Simeon Stylites (Arabic: كنيسة مار سمعان العمودي, romanized: Kanīsat Mār Simʿān el-ʿAmūdī) is one of the oldest surviving church complexes...

Nicetas (Nikita) Stylites was a 12th-century Russian saint who founded the Monastery of St. Nicetas on the eastern shore of Lake Pleshcheyevo in Zalesye...

Alypius the Stylite (‹See Tfd›Greek: Ἀλύπιος ὁ Στυλίτης) was a seventh-century ascetic saint. He is revered as a monastic founder, an intercessor for...

Venerable Luke the Stylite (Greek: Λουκάς ό Στυλίτης; c. 879-979?) lived in Constantinople in the 10th century. He served as a soldier during the reign...

John the Stylite, also known as John of Litharb (died c. 737/738), was a Syriac Orthodox monk and author. He was a stylite attached to the monastery of...

Simeon Stylites the Younger, also known as Simeon of the Admirable Mountain (Greek: Συμεὼν ὁ νεώτερος ὁ στυλίτης, Arabic: مار سمعان العمودي الأصغر mār...

on the opposite side for visitors. Anchorite Immurement Sokushinbutsu Stylite "Immured Anchorites- Tibetan Myths". Presscluboftibet.org. Retrieved 30...

The Chronicle of Pseudo-Joshua the Stylite is an anonymous Syriac history of the period 494–506 AD. Its actual title as given in the manuscript is A Historical...

Saint Symeon Stylites of Lesbos (765/766–844) was a monk who survived two attempts on his life during the second period of Byzantine Iconoclasm (814–842)...

martyr Simeon Stylites, the Elder (390–459), 5th century Christian ascetic saint who lived for 37 years atop a pillar Simeon Stylites the Younger (521–596)...

(died 344), Christian martyr in Persia, feast day 21 February Daniel the Stylite (409–493), Mesopotamian monk and ascetic, feast day December 11 Daniel...

are assumed to have at least one sister as a hagiography of Daniel the Stylite names a brother-in-law of Verina and Basiliscus as Zuzus. Stefan Krautschick...

Simeon Stylites III was a pillar hermit bearing the same name as Simeon Stylites and Simeon Stylites the Younger. He is honoured by both the Greek Orthodox...

Roman Martyrology Simeon of Mantua 900s 1016 1049 by Pope Leo IX Simeon Stylites c. 390 2 September 459 found in Roman Martyrology Simón de Rojas 28 October...

"St Simeon Stylites" is a poem written by Alfred Tennyson in 1833 and published in his 1842 collection of poetry. The poem describes the actions of St...

Daniel founded the first monastery with the wooden church of St. Daniel-Stylite, which is now the Danilov Monastery. Daniel died in 1303, aged 42. Before...

but was a confusion with Alypios the Stylite, who shares a saint's day and city of birth, with the attribute 'stylite' being confused with a cognomen Στυλιανός...

Byzantium Alypius of Constantinople (fl. 430), Byzantine priest Alypius the Stylite (died 640), ascetic saint and monastic founder Alypius of Thagaste (died...

Greatrex–Lieu (2002), II, 77 Joshua the Stylite, Chronicle, XC * Greatrex–Lieu (2002), II, 74 Joshua the Stylite, Chronicle, XCIII–XCIV * Greatrex–Lieu...

Orthodox church. He was a stylite of Kartamin. He is commemorated with feast days of August 1 and August 4. Hermit Simeon Stylites Oriental Orthodoxy Eastern...

Enclosed religious orders Immured anchorite Mystical theology Shugendō Sadhu Stylite "The cell of enclosure, however, was equated with a prison, into which...

stands about 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the walled ruins. Interpreted to be a stylite tower, the soaring structure served as a platform for Christian ascetics...

of Stoudios in Constantinople established. 475 – Church of Saint Simeon Stylites in Syria (Byzantine Empire) dedicated. 478–493 – Bolnisi Sioni basilica...

Timothy of Kakhushta or Timothy the Stylite (fl. c. 800) was a Syrian Melkite hermit and holy man known from an Arabic biography written not long after...

The Monastery of Saint Simeon Stylites the Younger (Turkish: Aziz Simon manastır) is a former Christian monastery that lies on a hill roughly 29 kilometres...

of 1865 by Constantinou Dimitrios shows above the last two columns of the main group, a small stone structure in which had lived an ascetic or Stylite...