[[Image:StSimonTheShoemaker.jpg|thumb|Coptic icon of St. Simon the Shoemaker(depicted as a one-eyed man carrying a sack of water, as he used - every morning before going to work - to carry water to the sick and the old who could not fetch water for themselves)]] Saint Simon the Tanner lived towards the end of the tenth century when Egypt was ruled by the Fatimid Caliph Al-Muizz Li-Deenillah, and Abraam the Syrian was the Coptic [[Pope]].