<P> Eastern Catholic Church </P> <Tr> <Th> Feast </Th> <Td> December 11 </Td> </Tr> <P> Saint Daniel the Stylite (c. 409--493) is a Saint and stylite of the Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Eastern Catholic Churches . He is commemorated on 11 December according to the liturgical calendars of these churches . </P> <P> St. Daniel was born in Maratha, a village in upper Mesopotamia near Samosata in present - day Iraq . He entered a monastery at the age of 12 and lived there until he was thirty - eight . During a voyage he made with his abbot to Antioch, he passed by the city of Telanissos (today Deir Semaan) and received the benediction and encouragement of St. Simeon the Stylite . Then he visited various holy places, stayed in various convents, and retired in 451 A.D. into the ruins of a pagan temple . </P>

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