stylites

After I finish the Roman Mysteries I might write 'The Qartmin Trilogy' about monks, stylites and demons in 6th century Byzantium!

Some Frequently Asked Questions addressed to Roman Mysteries author Caroline Lawrence 2010

He thought of Sister Edgar in sixth grade talking about desert saints, pillar saints, stylites, and she hoisted herself up on her desk and crossed her legs under the habit, a saint lotused on a column in the Sinai, and spoke to the class in snatches of Latin and Hebrew and he remembered liking that—he liked to think of a godstruck band of wanderers haunting the test ranges and silos of the West.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

He thought of Sister Edgar in sixth grade talking about desert saints, pillar saints, stylites, and she hoisted herself up on her desk and crossed her legs under the habit, a saint lotused on a column in the Sinai, and spoke to the class in snatches of Latin and Hebrew and he remembered liking that—he liked to think of a godstruck band of wanderers haunting the test ranges and silos of the West.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

He thought of Sister Edgar in sixth grade talking about desert saints, pillar saints, stylites, and she hoisted herself up on her desk and crossed her legs under the habit, a saint lotused on a column in the Sinai, and spoke to the class in snatches of Latin and Hebrew and he remembered liking that—he liked to think of a godstruck band of wanderers haunting the test ranges and silos of the West.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

Yet how could I shock the sweet filial heart of my cousin by a fierce lampoon or _stylites_ against her father, had Latin even figured amongst her accomplishments?

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various

They were known as hermits or recluses if they provided their own necessities of life or accepted them from strangers; stylites or dendrites, if they chose a pillar or a tree as the scene of their mortifications; lauriotes or kelliotes, if they lived together in a laura.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

Some passed years on the top of a pillar (stylites); others condemned themselves to remain standing, in open air (stationaries); others shut themselves up in a cell so that they could not come out (recluses).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

Holy people, anchorites, recluses, ascetics, stylites, hermits in deserts, are no match for me in fortitude of spirit -- yet even they fell in the struggle with the temptation of the diabolical flesh.

Yama: the pit Bernard Guilbert Guerney 1904

Here are to be found anchorites, and stylites or pillar-saints.

A Short History of Monks and Monasteries Alfred Wesley Wishart 1899

Yes, I will cling to the stylobate of thy temple, I will be a stylites on thy columns, my cell shall be upon thy architrave and, what is more difficult still, for thy sake I will endeavour to be intolerant and prejudiced.

Recollections of My Youth Renan, Ernest, 1823-1892 1897