Siméon Stylite
Holy Siméon Stylite , known as Siméon Old the (392 - 459).
He lived all his life in an austere way, carrying out the long ones and recurring periods without contact with the world. One retains of him that there remained forty years at the top of a column (from where its name of “stylite”, column in Greek). Each day, from the pilgrims came to bring food to him which they hoisted in Siméon by the means of a cord raising a basket. The space of which it had with the top its column was just sufficient to be held upright or sitted, ever lengthened. Siméon Stylite died in position of prayer, the united hands and the closed eyes, so that its faithful reflects two days to realize of its death. There remain vestiges of this building in Djébal Sim' year (mountain of Simon) not far from Alep in Syria.
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