(1) The sheer volume of women involved makes Russell look like a Christian eremite from the days of the Desert Fathers.(2) A cenobite is usually a monk in a monastery, as opposed to an anchorite, who is a monk living alone (also called an u2018 eremite u2019 or u2018hermitu2019).(3) It is a romantic faith, and he observed it with the discipline of an eremite monk.(4) He lived in the 10th and 11th centuries as an eremite monk near the Sazava River.(5) On the other they meet Paul the Hermit, the traditional founder of the eremitic life.(6) Obviously, other Celtic tales incorporate the same division, and one has to ask whether the eremitical movement is really separable from this myth of withdrawal into innocence.(7) Vasari's portrait of the aged Piero as eremitic and antisocial has influenced the way scholars have read the few available documents.(8) To try and liven up the downcast mood, some of my fellow-tourists start reminiscing about more productive quests for an appointment with our eremitic host.(9) The best I could find was Raven's Bread - u2018a quarterly newsletter for hermits and those interested in the eremitical life.u2019(10) When Romanus withdraws into the rugged mountains and takes up life under a pine tree next to a spring, for instance, we see the adaptation of Eastern eremitical forms to the Gallican geographical context.(11) While the saint's dress denotes the eremitic character of the order of friars at S. Andrea, a remarkable and unexampled feature is the fiery red halo shining around Augustine's head.(12) In time, the eremitical ideal diminished, and wandering gave way to a settled, monastic way of life.(13) In the words of a leading twentieth-century Athonite monk, Fr Theoklitos of Dionysiou, u2018it is the eremitic life that constitutes the primary form of monasticism in the East.u2019(14) These new orders were all influenced by the eremitical tradition: many indeed emerged from communities of hermits.
