Who knows what a Stylite is? Anybody? (I'll bet John Wollwerth knows.) The Stylites took the asceticism to its logical conclusion, choosing to live their lives perched on columns. Yes, really! In the Byzantine Empire in the third and fourth centuries, some of the devout read in their Bibles that Jesus sometimes left the crowds to get away and pray, and decided to pursue their own holiness by leaving society. They became hermits, dedicated to living in solitude. Or, they bande

They were having an actual PHYSICAL "mountain top experience" with the risen Christ, and STILL, "some held back, not sure about worship...