Simon the Tanner [SEP] canonization status
Simon the Tanner
Simon the Tanner (fl. 10th century), also known as Saint Simon the Shoemaker (; "Sam'ān al-Kharrāz") is the Coptic Orthodox saint associated with the story of the moving the Mokattam Mountain in Cairo, Egypt, during the rule of the Muslim Fatimid Caliph al-Muizz Lideenillah (953–975) while Abraham the Syrian was the Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria.
The miracle of moving the mountain.
Simon the Tanner lived toward the end of the tenth century and
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