In the fifth century, St. Simeon Stylites built a column for himself to live on to escape civilization. Civilization of course followed him and his followers built a town around the column bother him. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_Stylites] Today, the column is only a fraction of its former 15 meters, due to pilgrims taking souvenirs home with them, but the church ruins are pretty impressive. The ruins are a thirty-minute car ride from Aleppo, which is Syria's second city and its first in food. The gold leaf icon pictured is of St. Simeon, taken from a Greek Orthodox church in Aleppo (interior also pictured here). More to follow.
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