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A hermit, also known as an eremite (adjectival form: hermitic or eremitic) or solitary, is a person who lives in seclusion. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Eremitism plays a role in a variety of religions . Description
Garden hermit, or ornamental hermit, a person invited to live as a hermit on a wealthy landowner's estate; Hermit, a type of spiced cookie; Hermit (horse) (1864–1890), English thoroughbred; Hermit (hummingbird), the hummingbird subfamily Phaethornithinae; Hermit language, an extinct language that was spoken in Papua New Guinea
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 ...
Garden hermits became popular with British aristocracy during the 18th and early 19th centuries. Contemporary accounts suggest the Weld family kept an ornamental hermit in a purpose-built hermitage on the Lulworth Estate in Dorset. [3] Of equivalent novelty, the Welds also maintained a "mimic" fort and harbour beside an adjoining lake. [3]
A hermitage most authentically refers to a place where a hermit lives in seclusion from the world, or a building or settlement where a person or a group of people lived religiously, in seclusion. Particularly as a name or part of the name of properties its meaning is often imprecise, harking to a distant period of local history, components of ...
On Pentecost, Brother Christian Matson decided to point a new way forward, a “language of love” in the Catholic Church for LGBTQ people. | Opinion
Onuphrius (also Onoufrios; Greek: Ὀνούφριος, romanized: Onouphrios) lived as a hermit in the desert of Upper Egypt in the 4th or 5th centuries. He is venerated as Saint Onuphrius in both the Roman Catholic and Eastern Catholic churches, as Venerable Onuphrius in Eastern Orthodoxy, and as Saint Nofer the Anchorite in Oriental Orthodoxy.
Aphrahat, Aphraat, Aphraates or Afrates (Ancient Greek: Aφραάτης i; Persian: فرهاد; and Classical Syriac: ܐܦܪܗܛ) was a fourth-century Persian-born hermit who was active in Mesopotamia and Syria during the reign of Emperor Valens (r. 365–378) and perhaps Theodosius (r. 378–395).