Event Factoid: Simeon asked
the people of the hamlet to gather around him so that he could
proselytize and admonish them for neglecting their faith.
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: 237-241.