Driven from the high places, the obdurate Priests of Bel took refuge in the depths of the forest and in the islands of the sea, wherein the Christian anchorites of the next age were to replace them.
St. Carthach himself had set the example at Lismore; and it seems it was regularly followed, for a small endowment in land was provided for the maintenance of these anchorites at Lismore.
We read in Archdall that there was at Lismore, as at Armagh and many other principal churches, a hermitage, where one or more anchorites dwelt enclosed in their cells, after the fashion of the primitive Egyptian saints in the Desert.
He was doubtless a member of the same distinguished family, which had already given many abbots and anchorites to Glendalough.
Some anchorites [Footnote: Properly an anchorite is a recluse, walled into his cell; a monk is a solitary; and an eremite or hermit is a dweller in the desert.
According to the legend, as already said, Mary Magdalen spent the close of her life here, and numerous anchorites settled in the caves around.
But the earlyanchorites of Europe were not usually guilty of such extravagance.
It was a practice of the ancient anchorites to count the number of their prayers by little stones or grains.
Towards the end of the twelfth century a rule for anchorites was written by Bishop Richard Poore[124] of Chichester, and afterwards of Salisbury, who died A.
The transition from this arrangement of a group of anchorites occupying the anchorages of a laura under a spiritual head, to that of a community living together in one building under the rule of an abbot, was natural and easy.
About St. Anthony were already assembled many anchorites who gave him their obedience.
The first anchorites established themselves in the deserts and the ruins of the district of Thebes in Upper Egypt, which remained the holy land of the solitaries.
The natural tendency of the solitary life was to produce an emulation in religious endeavour; and monasteries which were little more than collections of anchorites were liable to the decay consequent upon the rivalry of their inmates.
The cenobite followed, by the combination ofanchorites in monasteries.
The penitent Brahmans live as anchoritesin the forest, in the mountains, on the holy lakes Ravanahadra and Manasa, under Kailasa, the lofty peak of the Himalayas.
On the other hand, the anchorites in the forest opposed these efforts from the opposite direction with the combined body of religious conceptions, with their views of Brahman.
If the first was the peculiar task of the schools of the Brahmans, the second was the essential duty of the anchorites in the forest.
Greek and Indian accounts inform us that troops of Brahmans wandered through the land--a mode of life which in India is not the most unpleasant; and it is certain that a considerable number lived as anchorites in the forests.
Hardly three-quarters of an hour from the monastery, and not two hours and a half, as these worthy anchorites believed.
Thank you, pious anchorites of Greccio, thank you for the bread that you went out and begged when I arrived at your hermitage benumbed with cold and hunger.
He even, under eager questioning, described to him the persons of famous anchorites he had sung the Psalter and prayed with there; the only intercourse their vows allowed, except with special permission.
They set forth the marvellous virtues of anchorites and their miracles.
This would include anchorites and monks (also the conversi[434] or lay-brethren) and the secular clergy from the rank of bishop downward.
The complete Latinizing of Gaul and the conversion of its rural population proceeded from the urban churches, and from the labours and miracles of anchorites and monks.
Marvellously Romuald increased his fasts and austerities, after the manner of the old anchorites of Egypt.
A practical answer was given by the growth of an indeterminate asceticism within the Christian communities, which in the fourth century went forth with power, and peopled the desert with anchorites and monks.
So anchoritestended to become coenobites; monasticism has begun.
One of a class of anchorites who lived in various parts of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.
A number of hermitages or cells in the same neighborhood occupied by anchorites who were under the same superior.
The anchorites sat near each other on a low block of stone, which Hermas had made into a soft couch for his father by heaping up a high pile of fresh herbs.
I cannot believe that the anchorites up yonder are peculiarly pleasing to the Lord because they live in solitude.
The cave was but dimly lighted by the fire that had been made at the opening, so that the two anchorites could not perceive that Hermas reddened all over as he replied, "Sirona?
Take her, And with me a repentance as profound As Anchorites for their sin pay.
The idle way of life of the anchorites was wholly repulsive to his views of the task for men and for Christians, but he succored those whom he could, and made no enquiries about the condition of the sufferer.
Many similar caves were to be found in the holy Fountain, and other anchorites had taken possession of the larger ones among them.
Various early English authors also allude to the habitations and lives of different anchorites belonging to our own country.
In short, the notices of deserts, hermits, and anchorites to be found, lives of saints, etc.
Defn: A number of hermitages or cells in the same neighborhood occupied by anchorites who were under the same superior.
Defn: One of a sect of anchorites in the early church, who lived on the tops of pillars for the exercise of their patience; -- called also pillarist and pillar saint.
Then said the Abbot: 'Here have I God-fearing monks, who would fain live as anchorites (i.
To him came that venerable old man Toretus, the Prior of Thorney, and his Sub-prior, Dom Tissa, both anchorites of the utmost sanctity.
The islands were harried, Lambay being perhaps the first to suffer; everything of value was taken, and the hermits and anchorites were killed or carried away.
Bread," replied Zarathustra, laughing when he spake, "it is precisely bread that anchorites have not.
After having visited the Holy Land, and recommended his soul to the prayers of the anchorites charged to receive and console pilgrims, he quitted Jerusalem to return to his country, which he was doomed never to see again.
Monks deserted the cloisters in which they had sworn to die, believing themselves led by a divine inspiration; hermits and anchorites issued from forests and deserts, and mingled with the crowd of Crusaders.
Nitria, number of anchorites in the desert of, ii.
A brilliant star is said to have shone miraculously over his pillar; the general voice of mankind pronounced him to be the highest model of a Christian saint; and several other anchorites imitated or emulated his penances.
In the first period of the hermit life, when many anchorites became insane through their penances, a refuge is said to have been opened for them at Jerusalem.
During the second period, which extended from the Decian persecution, anchorites were numerous, but the custom of a common or coenobitic life was unknown.
Distant Mount Athos with its thousands of anchorites would from time to time welcome back a brother who had basked for a short time in the sunlight of an Emperor's smile.
Anthony's fame went far afield, many disciples followed him, and ere he died at the advanced age of 105 he was surrounded by many fellow-anchorites ready to follow in his footsteps.
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