Lives of Simeon Stylites

Robert Doran
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In the flood of christian ascetics who left the world to seek God alone, Simeon chose a novel withdrawal. He mounted a pillar and remained there the rest of his life. To him came supplicants with all kinds of problems: personal anguish, sickness and pain, infertility, sin, and social transgression. Public issues were mediated at his shrine and slaves manumitted. Three views of the Stylite in three lives.



Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Cistercian Publications
Published: 05/01/1992
ISBN: 9780879075125
Pages: 241
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.56h x 6.38w x 0.56d