St. Simeon (the) Stylite/Stylites

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Please tell me the correct form:

St. Simeon Stylites
St. Simeon Stylite
or
St. Simeon the Stylite

Thanks in advance

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Matthias Quaschning-Kirsch

Germany

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several forms

Cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_Stylites
"St. Simeon Stylite" is wrong, but the others you mentioned are right.

Peer comment(s):

agree	Vicky Papaprodromou 1 min
	Thanks, Vicky!
agree	Christopher Crockett : Yes, "S. stylites" is always used in the scholarly literature. I don't think I've ever seen "S. the Stylite", and it is certainly never translated into "The Column Sitter" or anything similar. 1 min
	Thanks, Christopher!
agree	William [Bill] Gray : Also sometimes Simon, depending on whose transliteration is followed! 2 hrs
	Thanks, Bill!
agree	Romanian Translator (X) 5 hrs
	Thanks, Awana
agree	Alfa Trans (X) 19 hrs
	Kiitoksia, Marju!
agree	Ana Juliá 3 days 22 hrs
	Thanks, Ana!

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