Stylites, the men who practiced the most stringent form of asceticism in the early days of Christianity, took the urge to leave the world behind and become hermits to an extreme that few others could match. Living atop pillars or columns — even sometimes natural stone pillars, such as in Meteora, Greece — these men […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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