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The Pillars of the Earth vocabulary
13 Christianity and/or Biblical vocabulary words
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stylite
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tags: [christianity]
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Definition:a Christian ascetic who sits on a pillar and preaches, fasts, and prays. The most famous one, Simeon, supposedly sat on a pillar for 37 years until his death.
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Chapter began with a reading about Simeon Stylites, the saint whose feast day it was. [...] Philip had always harbored a secret doubt about the real value of his testimony. Crowds had flocked to see him, but had they come to be spiritually uplifted, or to look at a freak?
Ken Follett. The Pillars of the Earth, pp.143-144 (1990)
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My desire to go and hear Berma received a fresh stimulus which enabled me to await the coming of the matinée with impatience and with joy; having gone to take up, in front of the column on which the playbills were, my daily station, as excruciating, of late, as that of a stylite saint, I had seen there, still moist and wrinkled, the complete bill of Phèdre, which had just been pasted up for the first time
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