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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—P

Pillar Saints

or Stylites. A class of ascetics, chiefly of Syria, who took up their abode on the top of a pillar, from which they never descended. (See Stylites.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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