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Let us, then, look for it. On the 24th of May we find the festival of Symeon Stylites Junior, who lived on a pillar outside Antioch, and who was constantly engaged in an aerial ministry to the people of Antioch and their needs. His life is extant in Greek, and written with great diffuseness for those who wish to follow his stereotyped fortunes and mechanical miracles. He held a great place in the affections of the Antiochenes, and I have no doubt that when he died in 596 he was regarded as one ...of the great patron saints of the city. That is, he was at all events a candidate for the title of Salus Avtiuchiae. With him the hagiologists record the story of his mother, and they tell us that when she came to die she desired to be buried in the sepulchre at Daphne where the blessed Thomas had been laid. And it is generall}^ agreed that this is the Thomas whom Evagrius mentions after his Symeon the Stupid. It follows, then, that Antioch at one time possessed a S. Thomas with a tomb and a famous festival, and that he was regarded as the Genius of the city ; and that at some time near the end of the sixth century XIV] S.
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