Event Factoid: For twenty-six years
Simeon preached, gave blessings, and established himself
as a spiritual teacher as the church he established flourished.
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: 246-247.