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Only those engaged in teaching and inmates of the houses of recollection, among the Discalced, are exempt from the obligation to this duty, to follow which the order, though retaining its name Hermits, exchanged the contemplative life for the active.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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Olmedo had founded in Italy retained their independence, and were known as the Hermits of St. Jerome of Lombardy, their general residing at San Pietro del Ospitaletto, in the Diocese of Lodi.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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The Hermits were the first southern New Jersey team to win a state title in 2007 when they defeated St. Peters Prep 3-1.
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The Hermits were the first southern New Jersey team to win a state title in 2007 when they defeated St. Peters Prep 3-1.
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CXLV, under the titles, "Hermits", "Nuns", col. 45-48, 49-50), nor the Maronite council of 1736, has any more recent general law to cite.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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You won't find Herman's Hermits or the Searchers on Absolute Radio 60s.
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We forget that The Beatles flourished at the same time as Freddie and the Dreamers and Herman Hermits.
Jeff Pollack: No, New Music Doesn't Suck Jeff Pollack 2010
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We forget that The Beatles flourished at the same time as Freddie and the Dreamers and Herman Hermits.
Jeff Pollack: No, New Music Doesn't Suck Jeff Pollack 2010
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Their show, naturally enough, opens with a sequence of four songs that pivot around the very nature of yin and yang, bad and good, from "I Want to Be Bad" to "Something Good" (the latter is by Richard Rodgers, but I wouldn't be surprised to hear them tackle the 1964 Herman's Hermits hit).
Comebacks and Co-Conspirators Will Friedwald 2010
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Hermits are hardly an ‘eastern’ idea, but more significantly, communal monasticism was not only invented in the East, but it has been much more important to the development of Eastern Christianity than it has been in the West.
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