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Daniel the Stylite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Saint Daniel the Stylite (c. 409 - 493) is a saint of the Eastern Orthodox, and Roman Catholic and Eastern Catholic Churches. He was born in a village by the name of Maratha in upper Mesopotamia near...
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"Saints Alive" has already recounted the unusual austerities of the original stylite ("pillar") saint, Simeon, who died in the mid-fifth century after having ... There were many eastern stylites, women as well as men, in the early medieval Roman epoch. Few of these were canonized. Among them was St. Daniel the Stylite.
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One day, nine years later, when he was fifty-one years old, Daniel fell into an ecstasy and saw Saint Symeon the Stylite standing before him at the top of a huge pillar of cloud; on either side of him were two men of shining appearance who, at the command of the Elder, fetched Daniel and brought him up to his side.
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In 467, at the request of Saint Daniel the Stylite (11 Dec.), who rivaled the exploits of Symeon, the Emperor Leo I had his holy relics translated to Constantinople, where a church was built to receive them not far from Saint Daniel’s pillar.
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Such is the historical background of this Life of Daniel, the Pillar Saint. It was Simeon the Stylite who in the fifth century set the model for this strange form of penitential asceticism, and it was his renown which led others to follow his example.
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