Date: 0483Event Factoid: Simeon was a
recluse who lived in a walled monastery. He spent much of his time
standing on a wall in order to fulfill two purposes: seclusion and the
entertainment of strangers. He began living as a recluse in 483.
Sources:
E. W Brooks, trans.,Lives of the Eastern Saints I,Patrologia Orientalis 17.1 (1923), https://archive.org/stream/patrologiaorient17pariuoft#page/n7/mode/2up, p: 84-86.