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Symeon

Archimandrite and stylite near Anaplous

An archimandrite and stylite who struggled on the Bosporus beyond Anaplous.

Feast
July 26old style August 8
Era
unknown
Place
Anaplous (Bosporus)

Life

Venerable Symeon was an archimandrite and stylite. The Greek synaxarion calls him the one beyond Anaplous, a place on the Bosphorus shore, and commemorates him on 26 July (new style).

He is not found in the Synaxarion of Saint Nicodemus the Hagiorite. His name appears only in manuscripts: Codex Patmos 266 and Codex Vienna Theol. gr. 300, as well as in Delehaye's synaxarion, but without a biography. Nothing is known of his life beyond his title.

Commemorated the same day July 26