The Catholic Church has been undergoing a long, slow shift, playing out on the timescale of centuries: a shift to distance ...

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How are good are you with heights? Clearly they weren’t a problem for Syrian Christian Saint Simeon Stylites the Elder, who spent around 37 years living on top of a pillar. Born in around AD390 ...

He was fiercely competitive on the sports field and during evening house prayers would recite from St Simeon Stylites and then encourage the boys to raise the roof with a traditional hymn as he banged ...