Lives of Simeon Stylites

ISBN-13: 9780879075125 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 244 str.

Robert Doran; Susan Ashbrook Harvey; Robert Doran

Opis

In the flood of christian ascetics who left the world to seek God alone, Simeon chose a novel withdrawal. He mounted a pillar and remained there the rest of his life. To him came supplicants with all kinds of problems: personal anguish, sickness and pain, infertility, sin, and social transgression. Public issues were mediated at his shrine and slaves manumitted. Three views of the Stylite in three lives.