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Meaning of "stylite"
Stylite (noun): A stylite refers to a religious ascetic who lives on top of a pillar and is removed from the world and other human contact, often seeking spiritual enlightenment through isolation
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- A Christian ascetic in ancient times who lived alone on top of a tall pillar.
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Alypius the stylite.
Do not force the stylite from his high perch and do not harass the solitary.
The only sources about him are a horoscope by Rhetorius and a hagiography of Daniel the Stylite.
A man who is totally a business man is a stylite who never comes down from his column.
He went to Antioch to receive the blessing of Saint Simeon the Stylite.
He was a stylite of Kartamin.
Timothy the Stylite.
He reportedly visited Daniel the Stylite who predicted that Eudoxia and Placidia would return.
He 's now known as a pillar saint or Stylite.
Rather would I be a stylite even, than a whirl of revenge.
The Chronicle of Pseudo-Joshua the Stylite.
The Patriarch also ordained St Daniel the Stylite ( December 11 ) to the priesthood.
He is known from the hagiography of St. Luke the Stylite.
Umberto Eco 's Baudolino temporarily becomes a stylite towards the end of the book.
Won over by solitude, yet he remains in the world, a stylite without a pillar.
See also
Daniel the Stylite.
Symeon the Stylite.
Simeon the Stylite.
Alypios the Stylite.
Joshua the Stylite.
Saint Alypius, stylite.
He is also reputed to have visited the Christian hermit Symeon the Stylite between 413 and 420.
