Stylites

The last question, at least, has its answer in Stylites in Beijing, a two year-old street-style blog by Nels Frye that I only recently discovered, much to my delight.

Disgrasian: Stylites in Beijing: A Street-Style Blog in China Disgrasian 2010

Thus he lived thirty-seven years on pillars, and was called Stylites, from the

The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

The worship of Poverty of the early Franciscans had in it, then, nothing ascetic or barbarous, nothing which recalls the Stylites or the Nazirs.

Life of St. Francis of Assisi Paul Sabatier 1893

I, Simeon of the pillar, by surname Stylites, among men;

The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson Alfred Tennyson Tennyson 1850

What I love about Stylites, though, is that it doesn't just show fabulous people roaming the narrow hutongs of Beijing, it tells mini-stories of their lives, why they're in Beijing, what their professions are, what they're shopping for in the food markets, regular people-stuff that you're just not going to hear about on CNN.

Disgrasian: Stylites in Beijing: A Street-Style Blog in China Disgrasian 2010

Instead of being pillar people, taking the model of self-mortification, we should look to a contemporary of Simon Stylites--the example of Patrick of Ireland, who endured hardship and struggle with others, and for others, bringing liberation and transformation that resonated for centuries.

Crushed by Madoff: a dream of immortality through architecture. Ann Althouse 2009

What I love about Stylites, though, is that it doesn't just show fabulous people roaming the narrow hutongs of Beijing, it tells mini-stories of their lives, why they're in Beijing, what their professions are, what they're shopping for in the food markets, regular people-stuff that you're just not going to hear about on CNN.

Disgrasian: Stylites in Beijing: A Street-Style Blog in China 2009

The last question, at least, has its answer in Stylites in Beijing, a two year-old street-style blog by Nels Frye that I only recently discovered, much to my delight.

Disgrasian: Stylites in Beijing: A Street-Style Blog in China 2009

By ignoring the truth that cleanliness is next to godliness they paved the way for such saints as Simon Stylites and Sabba who, like the lowest Hindu orders of ascetics, made filth a concominant and an evidence of piety: even now English Catholic girls are at times forbidden by

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

The hermit, true or false, the fakir, the fanatic or the cynic, Stylites on his column or Diogenes in his tub, can all be pictured as tempted by the powers of the earth, of the air or of the heavens, with the offer of the best of everything; and replying that they want nothing.

Archive 2006-01-01 Mike L 2006