Which saint lived on a small platform at the top of a pillar in Aleppo for 37 years?
Simeon Stylites Simeon Stylites Saint Simeon Stylites or Symeon the Stylite ( ', Koine Greek ', ') (c. 390? – 2 September 459) was a Syriac ascetic saint who achieved notability for living 37 years on a small platform on top of a pillar near Aleppo (in modern Syria). Several other stylites later followed his model (the Greek word "style" means "pillar"). He is known formally as Saint Simeon Stylites the Elder to distinguish him from Simeon Stylites the Younger, Simeon Stylites III, and Saint Symeon Stylites of Lesbos. Simeon was the son of a shepherd. He was born in Sis, now
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