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Meaning of "stylites"
Stylites is a noun that refers to early Christian ascetics who lived on the top of pillars as a form of religious devotion
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- plural of stylite
- an epithet of several saints revered as stylites
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Stylites were a special type of anachorets.
Church of saint simeon stylites.
As we came out of the Stylites Arms, Poirot drew me aside by a.
Down to the sixth century there were still Stylites among them.
I say that St. Simeon Stylites had not his main inspiration in asceticism.
There he followed a similar model to Simeon Stylites.
It 's the same . Stylites were a special type of anchorites.
Those were stylites.
Some botanists split Isoetes by separating two South American species into the genus Stylites.
Simon and the Stylites.
In the current church there is an icon of Saint Simeon Stylites.
Honest and clear-sighted urbanists have the courage of their stylites.
On top of pillars or columns . Those were stylites.
It is first mentioned in Theodoret 's life of St. Simeon Stylites.
