He refused to come down from the pillar even for his own ordination

[Rob2]

St Daniel the Stylite​

Celebrated on December 11th

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A hermit , Daniel was born at Maratha in Mesopotamia, in 409. At the age of 12 he decided he wanted to join a monastery. The abbot consulted with his parents and admitted him to the community. Years later he visited St Simeon Stylite, who lived on top of a pillar, and received a blessing from him.

Daniel stayed in the monastery until he was 42, but never forgot his meeting with St Simeon. When the abbot died, his fellow monks asked Daniel to take his place but he refused. Instead he went on a series of pilgrimages and then lived alone in an old temple.

When St Simeon died in 459 Daniel decided to follow the way he had lived. For the next 33 years he lived on top of pillars, refusing to come down even for his own ordination. The Patriarch of Constantinople climbed up to lay his hands on the saint’s head.

Thousands of people came to visit St Daniel on his pillar to ask for his advice and prayers. Many healings were attributed to him. He died at the age of 80 in 493 and was buried in a chapel at the foot of his column.

from (ICN)

 

[Lee1]

Great story, also makes sense now of when my cousin said that he might be getting his own column

Thanks Rob

 

[Dan_Defender]

My namesake, pray for us! you were never alone, for God was your companion.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

That ICN site is really interesting, it has totally different saints from Catholic Culture liturgical calendar for many of the days. Catholic Culture mostly follows the US calendar with a few Canadian saints and European saints added.

Today in USA it’s the feast of St. (Pope) Damasus. We had a little homily about him at Mass.

Optional Memorial of St. Damasus I, pope - December 11, 2018 - Liturgical Calendar | Catholic Culture

 

[Roguish]

That ICN site is really interesting, it has totally different saints from Catholic Culture liturgical calendar for many of the days.

Independent Catholic News? Where on that site did you find a calender-based overview of the saints? I only get this passably funny sad-saint face. I don’t see any link to a calendar or list of saints.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

It’s in the left side menu bar - scroll down and click on “Saint of the Day”.
Today it’s Our Lady of Guadalupe of course.

 

[Roguish]

It’s a great story. What’s sad though is that if someone felt called to do something similar in the modern world, it would take all of 15 minutes for law enforcement to show up, inform him that he’s disturbing the peace, or that he doesn’t have a column-sitting permit, or that his column is intruding into controlled airspace, or whatever. They would then force him down, tazing him if he resisted, fine him a couple hundred dollars, maybe a suspended jail-term, and be done with him. If he tried again (even with a permit, and having moved his column to uncontrolled airspace) and stayed up there during bad weather and other adverse conditions, announcing that God was calling him to sit up there, he’d be all over the news. Psychiatrists would give live interviews on CNN informing the viewers that the man is “clearly insane” and that this kind of behavior is a “well-known form of delusional psychosis” (or pick your preferred psych term), and that with medication and therapy this “sad individual” may be rehabilitated and re-introduced into society as a law-abiding citizen who will cause no more trouble. Viewers, including church-going Catholics, would watch with fascination and say to each other and their children: “Good thing the police, paramedics, and fire brigade are out there to help this man. Let’s pray that he may recover from this crazy episode and be restored unto normalcy – just like us.” St. Daniel the Stylite will never even cross their minds.