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Date Posted: 09:01:55 02/21/04 Sat
Author: ketch - 11 Dec 2003
Subject: St Daniel the Stylite

December 11th - Feast Day of St Daniel the Stylite.




St Daniel the Stylite was conceived after his barren mother had pleaded with the Lord to send her a child. Two great lights then came down from heaven and rested near her. The child was born in 409AD.

At the age of five his mother took him to a monastery where the Abbot asked the boy his name. Whatever name he gave was considered unaaceptable, so the Abbot asked the child to fetch him a book. He returned with the book of Daniel and from then on was known as Daniel.

When he grew up he wandered far and wide searching for God. After a while he settled at a demon infested church, and exorcised the resident spirits. He remained there nine years, speaking with people only through the church window.

He left and had a vision of St. Simeon the Stylite whereupon he felt drawn to the idea of spending his life on top of a pole.

Daniel spent the last 33 years and 3 months of his life standing at the top of a column 40 cubits high. Presumably the column had armrests to hold St Daniel while he slept.

Daniel descended from the column just once, to sort out an argument amongst his followers.

Upon Daniel's death, December 11, 493, the people demanded to see him before his burial. Thus, Daniel was placed on a plank and affixed so as not to fall in an upright position. Then he was stood up as an icon for all the people to see. And in the sky for all to witness three crosses appeared with white doves encircling them above Daniel's corpse.

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