PILLAR SAINTS

or Stylites, a cla | ascetics who were mct with not unfr quently in Syria and Greece during tl 6th and 6th centuries of Christian it They t their lives upon the top | high pliers The best known is o1 a fone who in the 6th centu fs said to have lived for thirty years on tl eummit of _— about a yard in diamete He removed succe ively from one pill: to another, always increasing the heigh which in the last of them was 72 feet. [s. 243]