stylite

• There was a time a "stylite" was a saint who lived atop a pillar or a post in some forsaken desert. —  Knocking From Inside
• Soon the report of this extraordinary existence spread from village to village, and the labourers of the valley came on Sundays, with their wives and children, to look at the stylite. —  Thais
• He highly approved of the extraordinary conduct of the stylite, and the heads of the Libyan Church followed, in the absence of Athanasius, the opinion of the Patriarch. —  Thais
• Old Cotta, who was inspecting the canals and the navigation of the Nile, had many times expressed a desire to see the stylite and the new city, to which the name of Stylopolis had been given. —  Thais
• He stopped, some paces from the column, and began to examine the stylite, wiping his face meanwhile with the skirt of his toga. —  Thais

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms