E06929: Aldhelm, in his poem On the Altars of the Twelve Apostles, records the dedication of an altar to *Simon ('the Zealot,' Apostle of Christ, S00835), presumably in Britain. Written in Latin in southern Britain, c. 670/710.

Aldhelm, Carmina Ecclesiastica, 4.11

XI. IN SANCTI SIMONIS ZELOTAE
Simon Zelotes necnon Cananeus idem,
Inter apostolicos Petri cognomine functus;
Coetus qui docuit gentiles dogma supernum,
Ut celsum peterent caelesti tramite regnum;
Cuius in hac aula sacra conservabitur ara,
Dum polus et tellus ac ponti flustra fatescant,
Donec supremis scintillent saecla favillis
Et mundi moles montes collesque liquescant
Atque creaturae cerarum fluxus adinstar
Machina succumbat flamma crepitante per orbem.

'xi. On St Simon the Zealot
Simon the Zealot, the same who was a Chanaanite [Mt. 10:4], was known among the apostles by the name of Peter. He taught pagan multitudes the divine doctrine so that they might seek the heavenly kingdom along a celestial path. In this church his holy altar shall be preserved until the sky and the earth and the waters of the sea fade away, up till the moment when all ages burn in the final conflagration, and the mass of the earth, hills and mountains melts, and the structure of creation dissolves like a flux of wax, with fire crackling throughout the world.'

Text: Ehwald 1919, 30. Translation: Lapidge and Rosier 1985, 56.