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Simeon the Stylite - ܫܡܥܘܢ ܐܣܛܘܢܝܐ

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“Saint. Born in the village of Sisa near Nicopolis, Shemʿun was the child of Christian parents.” 1

Names

  • ܫܡܥܘܢ ܐܣܛܘܢܝܐ
  • Simeon the Stylite
  • ܫܡܥܘܢ ܕܐܣܛܘܢܗ6
  • ܫܡܥܘܢ ܕܐܣܛܘܢܗ4
  • ܫܶܡܥܘܢ ܕܐܶܣܛܽܘܢܶܗ4
  • سمعان العمودي3
  • Šemʾōn d-ʾEsṭōnēh6
  • Shemʿun d-Esṭōunēh
  • Simeon the Stylite1
  • SIMÉON LE STYLITE7
  • Simon the Stylite
  • Symeon the Stylite
  • Syméon le Stylite6
  • Šemʿôn der Stylite13
  • Shemʿun the Stylite1
  • Simon the Stylite2

Sex

male7

Birth

ca. 3801

Death

4591, 7

Descriptions

In hagiography: Simeon the Stylite was a shepherd who became a monk. He lived first in a cistern, but then later he built a column on which he lived at Telanesios. His pillar and extreme asceticism attracted pilgrims and converts.

Event

The saint is venerated on Sept. 1. 7

Notes

“Saint. Born in the village of Sisa near Nicopolis, Shemʿun was the child of Christian parents.” 1
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Works Cited

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  • 1 R. Doran, "Shemʿun the Stylite." in Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), pp: 377-378.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 2 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, trans. Matti Moosa, 2nd rev. ed. (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2003), pp: 170.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 3 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, al-Luʼluʼ al-manthūr fī tārīkh al-ʻulūm wa-al-ādāb al-Suryāniyyah, 4th ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1987), pp: 148.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 4 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), pp: 169.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 5 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Simeon the Stylite.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 6 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, entry: 131, 132, 514, 663, 712, 1143, 1812, 1913.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 7 Jean Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques (Princeton, N.J.: The Darwin Press, Inc., 2004), entry: 422.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 8 Paul Bedjan (ed.), Acta martyrum et sanctorum (Parisiis; Lipsiae: Harrasssowitz, 1890)., : IV, 507-665.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 9 Paul Peeters and Société de Bollandistes, Bibliotheca hagiographica orientalis (1910)., : 1121-26.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Archive.org Bibliographic recordLink to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 10 S. Ashbrook Harvey, "The Sense of a Stylite: Perspectives on Simeon the Elder." in Vigiliae Christianae (1988)., : 42 (1988), 376-94.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 11 Robert Doran, The Lives of Simeon Stylites (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Cistercian Publications, 1992)., : (Kalamazoo, 1992).Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 12 Pontificia Università lateranense and Istituto Giovanni XXIII, Bibliotheca sanctorum (Roma: Istituto Giovanni XXIII nella Pontificia Università lateranense, 1961-1970)., : XI, 1116-38.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 13 Anton Baumstark, Geschichte der syrischen Literatur mit Ausschluß der christlich-palästinensischen Texte (Bonn: A. Marcus und E. Webers Verlag Dr. jur. Albert Ahn, 1922), pp: 60-61.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Archive.org Bibliographic record
  • 14 Ignatius Ortiz de Urbina, Patrologia Syriaca, Altera editio emendata et aucta (Romae: Pont. Institutum Orientalium Studiorum, 1965), section: 36.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 15 William Wright, A Short History of Syriac Literature (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1894), pp: 55-56.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Archive.org Bibliographic record

How to Cite This Entry

Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Simeon the Stylite — ܫܡܥܘܢ ܐܣܛܘܢܝܐ ” last modified December 9, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/744.

Bibliography:

Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Simeon the Stylite — ܫܡܥܘܢ ܐܣܛܘܢܝܐ .”, edited by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent, David A. Michelson and Nathan P. Gibson. Vol. 1 of The Syriac Biographical Dictionary, edited by David A. Michelson. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published December 9, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/744.

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Entry Title: Simeon the Stylite — ܫܡܥܘܢ ܐܣܛܘܢܝܐ

Additional Credit:

  • Data from Macuch, Abuna, De Urbina, Duval, Assemani (vols. 1-2), Chabot, Wright, and Brock collected, verified, reconciled, and entered by Kristian Heal
  • German data entry by Samer Khader
  • Editing, proofreading, data entry and revision by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent
  • Editing, document design, data architecture, encoding, proofreading, data entry by David A. Michelson
  • Proofreading of GEDSH abstracts, addition of confessions and alternate names from GEDSH, matching with viaf.org records, data entry, data transformation, data merging, conversion to XML by Nathan P. Gibson
  • GEDSH and Barsoum English name entry, matching with viaf.org records by James E. Walters
  • Editing, Syriac name entry, Arabic name entry, disambiguation research, conversion to XML by Thomas A. Carlson
  • Editing, Syriac data conversion, data entry, and reconciling by Adam P. Kane
  • Editing and Syriac data proofreading by Aram Bar Schabo
  • Syriac name entry by Robert Aydin
  • Normalization of GEDSH dates and entry matching with viaf.org records by Alex Vawter
  • Editorial oversight for GEDSH and Barsoum English text entry, and proofreading by Christopher Johnson
  • GEDSH and Barsoum English text entry and proofreading by the Syriac Research Group, University of Alabama
  • Entries adapted from the work of Jean Maurice Fiey
  • Entries adapted from the work of Ugo Zanetti
  • Entries adapted from the work of Claude Detienne

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