anchorets

He soon filled that desert with anchorets, and built in it a monastery of regular canons.

The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

In the sixth, he shows that death is desirable to a Christian, who, by a penitential life, in imitation of the holy anchorets, is dead to the world and himself.

The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

This was held in the isle of Cocket, then filled with holy anchorets.

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She visited with great devotion all the principal places which we read to have been consecrated by the mysteries of the life of our divine Redeemer, as also the respective abodes of all the principal anchorets and holy solitaries of

The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

Four years after, in 374, he retired into the mountains near Antioch, among certain holy anchorets who peopled them, and whose manner of life is thus described by our saint: [6] They devoted all the morning to prayer, pious reading, and meditating on the holy scriptures.

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The slow, solemn enunciation of each word by a choir of hoary anchorets rolled in majestic cadence through the precipices of the mountains, and died away in the distant ravines in echoes of heavenly harmony.

Alvira, the Heroine of Vesuvius

The ancient anchorets of the East, the children of St. Anthony, were a long-lived sect, rivalling the many-wintered crow in longevity.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 Various

He entered upon the life of the recluse with the same motives and aims that have influenced thousands of other monks and anchorets of all lands and ages -- some of them princes like himself.

Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 Frank F. Ellinwood

Bramins of the Ganges, the shepherds of Mesopotamia, or the anchorets of

Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 Maria Graham

Several anchorets of the deserts of Nitria, all strangers, the principal of whom were Evagrius, Albinus, Ammonius, had a great desire to see the saint.

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