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Simeon Stylites the Elder

Also: Symeon the Stylite, Simeon of Telanissos

Born probably between 386 and 390, probably in Sis (Sisan), now on the old border of Cilicia and Syria, Turkey. Died in 459, in Telanissos (now Deir Semaan, Qalaat Semaan, Syria).

Syrian monk who lived for about forty years on top of a pillar near Antioch.

Wrote in Syriac.

Places lived

  1. 403 to 412Teleda (now Tell Ade, Syria)monkyears probable, place probable
  2. 412 to 459Telanissos (now Deir Semaan, Qalaat Semaan, Syria)monkyears probable

Works

1 work, in the order they were written. 1 work can be read here.

Filed here, not written by Simeon Stylites the Elder

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How we know the dates and places
Born probable
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_Stylites ; Theodoret, Religious History 26
Place of birth probable
F. Lent, The Life of St. Simeon Stylites, Journal of the American Oriental Society 35 (1915), introduction (the text in the corpus): born at Sis, near Nicopolis; Theodoret, Religious History 26.2; the site is not sure
Died sure
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_Stylites : 2 September 459; F. Lent, The Life of St. Simeon Stylites, Journal of the American Oriental Society 35 (1915), introduction (the text in the corpus)
Place of death sure
Syriac Life; Theodoret, Religious History 26; site: Pleiades https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/658613
Teleda, years probable
Theodoret, Religious History 26.4-5: about ten years in the monastery at Teleda
Teleda, place probable
Theodoret, Religious History 26.4; site: Pleiades https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/658614
Telanissos, years probable
Theodoret, Religious History 26.7; Syriac Life: 47 years at Telneshe
Telanissos, place sure
Syriac Life; Theodoret, Religious History 26.7; site: Pleiades https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/658613