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commemorates Simeon and marks the last of several pillars on top of which he lived during his life. According to one account, he lived on this pillar for the final 45 years of his long life and preached from the top of it. Miraculous healings were attributed to him and he was venerated as a saint
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was an eyewitness to many marvels, and says that he had experienced Simeon's knowledge of the thoughts of others when he visited him for spiritual advice. Simeon maintained this kind of life for 68 years. Towards the close of his life the saint occupied a column upon a mountainside near
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ordained him deacon during the short space of time he spent upon the ground. For his efforts, Simeon is said to have received from God the gift of healing. For eight years until John died, Simeon remained near his master's column, so near that they could easily converse. During this period his
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living within the mandra or enclosure of another pillar-hermit, named John, who acted as their spiritual director. Simeon while still only a boy had a pillar erected for himself close to that of John. In a letter to Thomas, guardian of the
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at his hands. As in the case of most of the other pillar saints, a large number of miracles were believed to have been worked by Simeon the
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was afterward revered as a saint. When Simeon was six years of age, his father was killed in an earthquake, after which he and his mother moved to the outskirts of the city.
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austerities were kept in some sort of check by the older hermit.
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