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Date: 0459-09-02Certainty:eventEvent Factoid: On Wednesday 2 Elul A. Gr. 771 at the eleventh hour Simeon the Stylite died.

Source Text

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Sources:

  • Ignatius Guidi (ed.), Chronica Minora, Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, vol. 1-2; Scriptores Syri, tomus 1-2 (Paris: E Typographeo Reipublicae, 1903), p: 8.
  • Benjamin Harris Cowper, "Selections from the Syriac. No. 1: The Chronicle of Edessa." Journal of Sacred Literature and Biblical Record n.s. 5.9 (1864), part: 69.
The correct date for the death of Simeon the Stylite is A. Gr. 770 (459), not A. Gr. 771.

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