Hagiographical life

Simeon Stylites (d. 550)

[Translated by Frederick Lent]

(P. 507, below.)

The Heroic Deeds of Mar Simeon, the Chief of the Anchorites.

To our brethren and sons and friends, children of the Holy Catholic Church: we make known to you in our writings (p. 508) the glorious deeds of the Man of God, who was a friend to the Christ. He gave himself to service in the vineyard of our Lord from the dawn even until the evening all the days of his life. He turned the stubborn of heart to conviction, and finished his struggle with praise, and his Lord took him to himself, that he might pay him the good reward of his labor in the land of the consummation of life eternal—the blessed Mar Simeon.

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