6 Vie 2

7 Vie 3. Ave. Simeon always felt this lack of higher education: "You know the weakness of my word," he turns to Christ, "and the lack of involvement in secular teaching." Hymn 58. 3–4. But this did not bother him at all, he rather boasted about it.

8 It can be assumed that "George" was the secular name of St. Simeon. The name Simeon was given to him at monastic tonsure in honor of his spiritual father, Simeon the Pious.

9 Euch 1.72–78.

10 Euch 2.635.

11 Cat 22.22–27.

12 Euch 1.78–80.

13 Euch 1.80–86.

14 Simeon the Pious (? ???????), born about the year 917, a monk of the Studite monastery beginning in the year 942, died about 986-987 at the age of about seventy. See: Catecheses t. 1, pp. 313-315 note. 4.

15 Cat 22.2838

16 Cat 22.41–43.

17 Cat 22.6667

18 Cat 22.56–58.

19 Cat 22.7073

20 Cat 22.7481

21 Cat 22.88104

22 Cat 22.275–295.

23 Euch 2.41–46' cf. Euch 1.114–117.

24 Hymn 20.126–139.

25 Cat 22.299–308.

26 Euch 2.4773