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St. Simeon Stylites — The Catholic Saint Who Lived 37 Years on a 50-Foot Pillar
In this episode of Everyday Saints, a Catholic podcast telling real saint stories in plain, everyday language, we tell the true story of St. Simeon Stylites — a shepherd boy who gave up everything to chase God, and ended up trying to escape the crowds that followed him by climbing on top of a stone pillar. He never came down. For thirty-seven years, he lived on a platform barely six feet across, fifty feet in the air, exposed to the weather, while pilgrims, emperors, and entire towns came to find him anyway. St. Simeon Stylites is considered the founder of an entire form of Christian…
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