Talk:Simeon Stylites

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Can anyone tell me whereabouts in Grimsby the statue of Simon Stylites is located? I only ask because I've lived in Grimsby and I'm not aware of it, nor is anyone else I've discussed the matter with. Grimsby really isn't that big a town, and there's no bustling Orthodox Syrian community I've ever noticed either.... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.176.105.41 (talk) 12:38, 11 January 2011 (UTC)


 * I came to this page to say exactly the same thing. Never heard of the column and I lived in Grimsby for 20 years.  Can't find reference or photo of it anywhere on the internet.  And I'm completely baffled at the idea of a "bustling Orthodox Syrian community" in the small Lincolnshire town that I grew up in.  Cheers.  ps.  Would love it to be true though.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.127.31.234 (talk) 14:35, 24 December 2011 (UTC)


 * a bit of research suggests that there's a syrian orthodox church in grimsby ONTARIO which may be where this statue is. have google streetmapped it and it's not outside, perhaps inside.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.127.31.234 (talk) 15:02, 24 December 2011 (UTC)

Is it physically possible to go without eating or drinking for forty days?
 * Well, maybe that was a miraculous occurrence. Also, there may potentially have been some unusually high humidity or something else there at the time. I dunno. John Carter 19:02, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

The article gives the impression that St. Simeon lived in the desert. I think the various places he lived in were all in the vicinity of the Sheikh Barakat Mountain, with the Afrine River not far away. What do others think? Lynjane 14:46, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Date of death
The date "24 July 459" appears in various places on the net. Any ideas about this? -- JackofOz (talk) 02:08, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I can't find anything definitive... it's definitely plausible, but I'm no expert. I get the feeling that people are simply copying each other. - Jarry1250 (t, c) 19:15, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Martha mother of Simeon Stylite the younger
In this text you see that St. Simeon the Stylite is also called St. Simeon the Elder. But you refer to Martha as his mother, but according to the wikipedia text martha was the mother of St. Simeon the Younger. Am I seeing this wrong? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Syriac Christianity (talk • contribs) 14:28, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Martha was the mother of Simeon the Younger, not the elder, I will delete this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lauriestien (talk • contribs) 03:32, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Repeating the same story?
There are two references here to a delegation that comes to him to see whether he will be obedient and descend from the pillar. Are they referring to the same incident? Should one be deleted? Rosecrans (talk) 23:44, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Small gods
In Small Gods (novel) there is reference to a saint staying on a column, i.e. parody, and I'm wondering whether it's worth mentioning here. Clearly, Terry Pratchett may have had a follower in mind instead. - Jarry1250 (t, c) 19:17, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Call of Nature?
Does anyone have any idea how he was able to answer the call of nature while up there? Did the same boys who brought him food and water also empty out a chamber pot for him or something? --Rnickel (talk) 14:50, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

37 or 39? needs consistency! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.197.228.80 (talk) 02:46, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Hi.

Well there is an answer of course. It is not as though he just built a pillar and lived upon it without thinking. Simeon allowed engineeres tl construct the different pillars with a channel alongside the pillar and down into the ground where there was a reservoir or tank if you will. That way the basic physiological needs were thought about. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.64.113.233 (talk) 16:17, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

Kwamikagami
This is not "spurious" IPA. This is one transcription system used in transcriping Arabic words. The symbols you used are never used in professional Arabic transcription. People often use ʻ to indicate the voiced laryngeal fricative (this is not an apostrophe, you smart); but the symbols I used here are clearer for people unfamiliar with Semitic transription (such as yourself). These symbols were used by many bright Semitic scholars in the same way I used them here. Please stop meddling in things you obviously know little about.--HD86 (talk) 05:54, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

Inspiration for Hearst?
Is there any chance that William Randolph Hearst named his hilltop mansion San Simeon in honor of this ancient flagpole-sitting clown? Just wonderin'... [signed] FLORIDA BRYAN — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:3:1000:4E2:9227:E4FF:FEF0:BBDE (talk) 02:13, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

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The link in "Zercon" is wrong
In the "Cultural Refrence" section, there is a mention of Zercon, Attila the Hun jester. The link at the word Zercon refers to this english wikipedia link which is a page on a genus of mites. I think the link should be removed. Sceasary (talk) 19:58, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

Mark twain???
Okay, maybe this will sound weird, but (and correct me if I'm wrong), I remember reading a reference to Simeon in "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court", describing him (I believe) as a saint or an ascetic performing risky things in a very deplorable state. After that, Twain says that those things the ascetic do, are so extreme, that, if the reader want to check it out, he will have to read some Twain´s writtings.

Am I crazy, or that actualy happened? --181.43.124.239 (talk) 18:46, 21 August 2020 (UTC)