He was a monk in the Pateron Monastery (Deir Al-Zugag).
The Synaxarium links Simeon to his Syrian heritage by mentioning to his readers that Severus of Antioch was buried in the monastery.
There were two attempts to poison Pope Simeon and he survived both of them.
He fought very fiercely against a new trend among Coptic men who began emulating the Arabs by taking more than one wife.
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