Our Lady of the Pillar — A series of articles on Roman Catholic Mariology … Wikipedia
Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar — Coordinates: 41°39′25″N 0°52′42″W / 41.65694°N 0.87833°W / 41.65694; 0.87833 … Wikipedia
List of saints — This article is about Christian saints after 450 AD. For Christian saints before this time, see List of early Christian saints. For a list of venerated persons in Mahayana Buddhism, see List of bodhisattvas. This is an incomplete list of… … Wikipedia
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Stylites — (from Greek stylos , pillar ) or Pillar Saints are a type of Christian ascetic who in the early days of the Byzantine Empire stood on pillars preaching, fasting and praying. They believed that the mortification of their bodies would help ensure… … Wikipedia
Stylites — • Solitaries who, taking up their abode upon the tops of a pillar (stylos), chose to spend their days amid the restraints thus entailed and in the exercise of other forms of asceticism. This practice may be regarded as the climax of a tendency… … Catholic encyclopedia
St. Simeon Stylites the Younger — St. Simeon Stylites the Younger † Catholic Encyclopedia ► St. Simeon Stylites the Younger Born at Antioch in 521, died at the same place 24 May, 597. His father was a native of Edessa, his mother, named Martha was afterwards revered… … Catholic encyclopedia
Simeon Stylites the Younger — Saint Simeon Stylites the Younger (521 May 24, 597) is a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church. Born at Antioch, his father was a native of Edessa, his mother, named Martha was afterwards revered as a saint and a life of her, which incorporates a… … Wikipedia
Monasticism — • The act of dwelling alone (Greek monos, monazein, monachos), has come to denote the mode of life pertaining to persons living in seclusion from the world, under religious vows and subject to a fixed rule, as monks, friars, nuns, or in general… … Catholic encyclopedia
SIMEON STYLITES — famous as one of the PILLAR SAINTS (q.v.) … The Nuttall Encyclopaedia