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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
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.
Maron, also called Maroun or Maro (Syriac: ܡܪܘܢ, Mārōn; Arabic: مَارُون, Mārūn; Latin: Maron; Ancient Greek: Μάρων), was a 4th-century Syriac Christian hermit monk in the Taurus Mountains whose followers, after his death, founded a religious Christian movement that became known as the Maronite Church, in full communion with the Holy See and the Catholic Church. [5]
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.
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 ...
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.
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