stylite in English
noun
1
an ascetic living on top of a pillar, especially in ancient or medieval Syria, Turkey, and Greece in the 5th century ad.
Watching him, I can't help but think of the stylites , fanatical Christian monks of the Middle Ages who would plant themselves atop columns in the desert and stay there for weeks and months.
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1. The only sources about him are a horoscope by Rhetorius and a hagiography of Daniel the Stylite.