Event Factoid: Two children
were were struck down with illness and died when their parents refused
Simeon's
attempt to tonsure them.
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: 244-245.