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The Church Fathers · c. 460–500
The Life of Symeon the Stylite
Anonymous
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What it is
The life of the ascetic who spent nearly forty years on a pillar near Antioch, judging disputes, advising emperors, and preaching twice a day to the crowds below.
Why it lasted
The founding text of a distinctly Syrian form of holiness that puzzled Greek and Latin observers and drew pilgrims from Britain to Persia.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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