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Definition of Stylite

Stylite
Stylite Sty"lite, n. [Gr. ?, fr. ? a pillar.] (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect of anchorites in the early church, who lived on the tops of pillars for the exercise of their patience; -- called also pillarist and pillar saint.

Meaning of Stylite from wikipedia

- A stylite (Ancient Gr****: στυλίτης (stylitēs) "pillar dweller", derived from στῦλος (stȳlos) "pillar" and classical Syriac: ܐܣܛܘܢܝܐ (astˁonāyā)) or pillar-saint...
- Simeon Stylites or Symeon the Stylite (Gr****: Συμεών ό Στυλίτης; Syriac: ܫܡܥܘܢ ܕܐܣܛܘܢܐ, romanized: Šimʕun dʼAstˁonā; Arabic: سمعان العمودي, romanized: Simʿān...
- Joshua the Stylite (also spelled Yeshu Stylite and Ieshu Stylite) is the attributed author of a chronicle which narrates the history of the war between...
- Daniel the Stylite (Gr****: Δανιὴλ ὁ στυλίτης, c. 409 – 493) is a saint and stylite of the Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Eastern Catholic Churches...
- Simeon Stylites the Younger, also known as Simeon of the Admirable Mountain (Gr****: Συμεὼν ὁ νεώτερος ὁ στυλίτης, Arabic: مار سمعان العمودي الأصغر mār...
- The Church of Saint Simeon Stylites (Arabic: كنيسة مار سمعان العمودي, romanized: Kanīsat Mār Simʿān el-ʿAmūdī) is one of the oldest surviving church complexes...
- Saint Martha (Gr****: Ἁγία Μάρθα; died 551) was the mother of Simeon Stylites the Younger. She is venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Church on July 4 and...
- Saint Symeon Stylites of ****s (765/766–844) was a monk who survived two attempts on his life during the second period of Byzantine Iconoclasm (814–842)...
- martyr Simeon Stylites, the Elder (390–459), 5th century Christian ascetic saint who lived for 37 years atop a pillar Simeon Stylites the Younger (521–596)...
- Nicetas (Nikita) Stylites was a 12th-century monk living in Kievan Rus' who founded the Monastery of St. Nicetas on the eastern s**** of Lake Pleshcheyevo...