Symeon of Trier
Saint Simeon of Trier (c. 980/990 in Syracuse in Sicily, † June 1, 1035 in Trier ) was a Byzantine monk who ended his life as a hermit.
Life
Simeon was born the son of a Greek officer in the Byzantine Syracuse, grew up in Constantinople Opel and was educated there. He spent seven years as a pilgrim leaders in Jerusalem and Palestine. Then he spent two years as a monk in the monastery in Bethlehem Mary, Simeon later moved to the St. Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai, where he wanted to prepare for later life as a recluse.
From his abbot he was sent to the annual charity reception at Duke Richard II of Normandy. Here his ship was attacked by pirates, but he was able to escape to the shore. Nevertheless, he continued on his way and joined the road in 1026 the abbots of St. Richard Vanne and Eberwin of St. Martin (Trier ), which were on the way back from Jerusalem.
On his arrival in Rouen ( 1027) of Duke Richard II, however, was already dead. Eberwin of St. Martin put him in the same year Archbishop Poppo before and it was decided that Simeon should accompany the Archbishop of Trier, Poppo on his pilgrimage to the Holy Land ( 1028-1030 ). After their joint return, Simeon came in from the 1030 Andreas hard solemnly immured in the eastern tower of the mighty Roman city gate Porta Nigra in Trier, for there all withdrawn in prayer as a hermit ( hermit ) to live. According to the beliefs of the population it was miraculous.
In his travels, he laid back about 25,000 kilometers. It helped that he spoke Greek, Egyptian, Arabic, Syriac, and Romansh.
Archbishop Poppo and Eberwin of St. Martin caused after his death, that as early as December 1035 by Pope Benedict IX in it. was canonized. This Simeon was after Ulrich of Augsburg, the second saint who was officially canonized. Archbishop Poppo began in 1041 with the transformation of the Roman Porta Nigra to a church, thus the building was protected from how others are used in medieval times as a quarry. Next to the church the Simeonstift was built, today Municipal Museum Simeonstift. The Church of Saint Simeon was the destination of pilgrimages, 1803 were the medieval additions largely removed by order of Napoleon again to restore the Roman general impression of the building.
The late baroque sarcophagus and the relics were then in the Church of St. Gervase in Trier. Since 1971 there are in Trier - West again a ( new ) parish church of St. Simeon, in the tomb and the relics were transferred. A Greek Lectionary (Codex Simeonis, 10-11. Century) and a needle bound cap of St. Simeon ( according to the tradition of camel's hair, but actually made of brown wool ) are kept in the Trier Cathedral. Lost only in modern times Simeons Greek Euchologion (Palestine, before 1030), from the Ambrose Pelargus (Stork ) nor 1540, the Chrysostom liturgy was translated into Latin: Divina ac sacra liturgia sancti Ioannis Chrysostomi. Interprete Ambrosio Pelargo Niddano, OP ( Worms 1541).