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The Hieronymites or Jeronimites, also formally known as the Order of Saint Jerome (Latin: Ordo Sancti Hieronymi; abbreviated OSH), is a Catholic cloistered religious order and a common name for several congregations of hermit monks living according to the Rule of Saint Augustine, though the role principle of their lives is that of the 5th-century hermit and biblical scholar Jerome.
Anthony the Hermit (c. 468–c. 520), Christian saint; Bluebeard the Hermit (died 1450), a leader of the English uprising generally known as Jack Cade's Rebellion; Elias the Hermit, 4th century ascetic saint and monk; Eusebius the Hermit, 4th century Eastern Orthodox saint and monk; Felix the Hermit, 9th century Roman Catholic saint, fisherman ...
Saint Giles (/ dʒ aɪ l z /, Latin: Aegidius, French: Gilles, Italian: Egidio, Spanish: Gil; c. 650 - c. 710), also known as Giles the Hermit, was a hermit or monk active in the lower Rhône most likely in the 7th century. Revered as a saint, his cult became widely diffused but his hagiography is mostly legendary.
The Three Hermits is a famous short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy written in 1885 and first published in 1886, with its shock ending, featured the 3 hermits as the titular characters. The main character of Tolstoy 's short story " Father Sergius " is a Russian nobleman who turns to a solitary religious life and becomes a hermit after he ...
Hermits are a rarely used form of religious life … but they can be either male or female. “Because there’s no pursuit of priesthood or engagement in sacramental ministry, and because the ...
Title page of “Origen de los Frayles” Origen de los frayles ermitaños de la Orden de San Augustin y su verdadera institucion antes del gran Concilio Lateranense (”Origins of the Hermit Friars of the Order of Saint Augustine and Their True Establishment Before the Great Lateran Council”) is a 1618 work by the Augustinian scholar Juan Márquez, Royal preacher and Chair of Theology at ...
Saint Paul, "The First Hermit", Jusepe de Ribera, Museo del Prado (1640) The grazers or boskoi (in Ancient Greek: βοσκοί, romanized: boskoí) are a category of hermits and anchorites, men and women, in Christianity, that developed in the first millennium of the Christian era, mainly in the Christian East, in Syria, Palestine, Pontus, Mesopotamia, and Egypt.
Houses were established throughout central and northern Italy, and in Belgium, Germany, Bohemia and Hungary. In 1243, Pope Innocent IV issued a papal bull addressed to all Tuscan hermits, with the exception of the "Brothers of Saint William in Tuscany", calling them to unite in a single religious order according to the Rule of Saint Augustine ...