stylite

Uncle Cullen has a special pole ordered so that he may take up the life of a stylite.

St. Aninus "discerned the soul" of this stylite and his intention.

Maxim hopes to take up residence on top of Katskhi as a stylite monk.

He was a stylite of Kartamin.

A celebrated stylite lived there in the tenth century, to whom St. Luke the Younger went to be trained.

His discipline led him to bind himself in chains and enclose himself within a pillar, thus the title 'stylite'.

Saint Alypius the Stylite was a seventh century ascetic saint.

Umberto Eco's Baudolino temporarily becomes a stylite towards the end of the book.

An internal spiral staircase allows visitors to reach the top of the column, where a stylite lived towards the end of the mid-Byzantine period.

At the end of the rite, however, the patriarch ascended to give Holy Communion to the stylite and to receive it from him.

He's said to be as rich as Croesus and as reclusive as a stylite, and that's all anyone knows of him.

They lived a life of nearly perfect emotional denial-a form of asceticism as extreme as that of a medieval stylite.

He believed God had preserved his life and out of this experience he decided to take up the ascetic and eremitic life of a stylite.

"The stylite was Saint Simeon," Belbo said, "and I think he stayed on that column so he could spit on the people who walked below."

The first stylite was probably Simeon Stylites the Elder who climbed on a pillar in Syria in 423 and remained there until his death 37 years later.

Forty years later, during his career as a stylite near Byzantium, Eco has his hero perform a miracle of clairvoyance modelled closely on that of the saint.

The Island had negligible width in the extra dimensions, and he could see clearly that the slightest hyperal movement of his body would send him plummeting into space like a drunken cosmic stylite.

The stylite gave his staff to one of his boyars to take to the prince; Mikhail took hold of it, was cured, and walked to the miracle-worker's pillar for his blessing.

Daniel the Stylite may have been the first of these, for he had been a disciple of Simeon and began his rigorous way of life shortly after his master died.

Armatus was identified as nephew of Verina and Basiliscus in other Byzantine sources, including a hagiography of Daniel the Stylite and the Suda.

When Pionius, a stylite,was attacked and badly beaten by robbers some distance away from Aninus, Pionius decided to descend from the pillar and proceed to complain to the judges.

In the first held of the eleventh century, the stylite Saint Lazarus lived on a column in the wilds of Mount Galesion, a few kilometers to the north of the city.

"In any case, whether Macarius or Simeon, I'm sure there was a stylite with worms, but of course I'm no authority on the subject, since the follies of the gentiles don't interest me."

In Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, the title character encounters a stylite who prays by Metanoia and uses the pedal motion to sew shirts describes as "St. Stylites".

More than once some individual has appeared to me with such negligence of labor and such commanding contemplation, a haughty beneficiary, begging in the name of God, as made good to the nineteenth century Simeon the Stylite, the Thebais, and the first Capuchins.