Simeon

Devout man in Jerusalem who received the infant Jesus in the temple. Speaks the supreme word at the Presentation: "Now, Lord, you will let your servant depart in peace."

Pope Clement VIII, Jerome's Prefaces, On Worship

• ON THE WORSHIP OF JESUS CHRIST IN THE SCRIPTURES. — Speaks the supreme word at the presentation: "Now, Lord, you will let your servant depart in peace"

  "it repeats to itself the supreme word of the old man Simeon"