The Lives of Simeon Stylites

[short]Translated by Robert Doran; Foreword by Susan Ashbrook Harvey , Pages: 241[/short][long] In the flood of Christian ascetics who left the world to seek God alone, Simeon chose a novel withdrawal. He mounted a pillar and remained there the rest of his life. To him came supplicants with all kinds of problems: personal anguish, sickness and pain, infertility, sin, and social transgression. Public issues were mediated at his shrine and slaves manumitted. Three views of the Stylite in three lives. [/long]