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An idea of their daily routine can be gleaned from an anchoritic rule. The most widely known today is the early 13th-century text known as Ancrene Wisse. [19] Another, less widely known, example is the rule known as De Institutione Inclusarum written in the 12th century, around 1160–1162, by Aelred of Rievaulx for his sister. [20]
Joseph of Panephysis, Joseph of Panepho, [1] or Joseph the Anchorite was an Egyptian Christian monk who lived around the 4th and 5th centuries in the desert of Lower Egypt. He was one of the Desert Fathers and was a contemporary for Abbas Poemen and Lot , who sometimes consulted him.
An anchorite (feminine form anchoress) is a Christian person who lives in strict physical separation from secular society. Anchorite or Anchoress may also refer to: The Anchorite, a 1976 Spanish film; HMS Anchorite, a Royal Navy submarine of the Second A Class; Anchorite, a kind of Azalea (Glenn Dale hybrid)
Cell of Saint Teresa de Ávila in the Convent of Saint Joseph. A cell is a small room used by a hermit, monk, nun or anchorite to live and as a devotional space. Cells are often part of larger cenobitic monastic communities such as Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican and Orthodox Christian monasteries, as well as Buddhist vihara, [1] but may also form stand-alone structures in remote locations.
The term "anchorite" (from the Greek ἀναχωρέω anachōreō, signifying "to withdraw", "to depart into the country outside the circumvallate city") is often used as a synonym for hermit, not only in the earliest written sources but throughout the centuries. [10]
Saint Cyrus the Anchorite, also known as Anba Karas (Coptic: ⲁⲃⲃⲁ ⲕⲁⲣⲟⲥ, Arabic: أنبا كاراس), [1] was a saint of the Coptic Orthodox Church who lived during the late fifth and early sixth centuries.
Paul of Thebes (Coptic: Ⲁⲃⲃⲁ Ⲡⲁⲩⲗⲉ; Koinē Greek: Παῦλος ὁ Θηβαῖος, Paûlos ho Thēbaîos; Latin: Paulus Eremita; c. 227 – c. 341), commonly known as Paul the First Hermit or Paul the Anchorite, was an Egyptian saint regarded as the first Christian hermit and grazer, [2] who was claimed to have lived alone in the desert of Thebes, Roman Egypt from the age ...
Pelagius (Spanish: Pelayo, Paio or Pelagio) was a hermit or anchorite [2] who lived in Solovio in the Libredón forest in 813 AD. [3] Narrative.