sentences:  Szymon often observed long fasts and scourged himself as a penitential practice as was wearing a penitential girdle - on feasts related to the Mother of God he would add a second girdle in order to win her special favor.He died in mid-1482 a week after contracting the plague which he got after tending to the ill during the epidemic of the plague.He died with his gaze fixated on the Crucifix close to him.