In 512 he passed into a neighboring island; where he led an eremitical life, as did several others, under the direction of St. Piro, a holy priest.
The bishop of this city having destined them for holy orders, they withdrew themselves from the abbey, and advancing together as far as Perche, led by their fervor to the austerities of an eremitical life, they separated.
The eremitical idea was abandoned, but the life was to be one of extreme austerity, simplicity and poverty--in all things as near an approach to St Francis's idea as was practicable.
HE was archpriest and grand vicar of the diocese of Rennes, and chancellor to the duke of Brittany; but divested himself of these employments, and led a most austere eremitical life, in the forest of Craon, in Anjou.
By the advice of a prudent director, he then embraced an eremitical life in a plain called Thole, near the foot of Mount Sinai.
This island belonged to the monastery of Tinmouth, and, with the leave of the prior of that house, St. Henry undertook to lead in it an eremitical life.
He first led an eremitical life in the mountains, near Frejus.
HE was born in Ireland, and, retiring into France, led an eremitical life at Limousin, where he acquired great reputation for his sanctity and miracles.
Some time after, our saint sailing from Cornwall, passed into Armorica, and continued the same austere eremitical life in a small island on the coast of the Osismians, a barbarous idolatrous people in Armorica, or Little Britain.
After leading for some time an eremitical life, he was commanded by pope Benedict VII.
Afterwards he led an eremitical life in the isle of Farne, where he died in 669, about eleven years after St. Cuthbert.
Apollinare in Classe; but being strongly drawn to the eremitical life, he went to live with a hermit in the neighbourhood of Venice and then again near Ravenna.
From that time to the present day there have always been both eremitical and cenobitical Camaldolese, the latter approximating to ordinary Benedictine life.
Romuald's idea was to reintroduce into the West the primitive eremitical form of monachism, as practised by the first Egyptian and Syrian monks.
Instead of showing any proneness to the eremitical life or wishing to impose it on the Society, he gave an example of immense and intense activity in public matters.
In the eremitical life, a simple handicraft was ordinarily coupled with the duty of spiritual contemplation.
Macarius, Arsenius, Serapion, famous lights of the church and patriarchs of the eremitical life, came from long distances and inaccessible solitudes to confer with her.
Although my would-be vocation to the eremitical life was somewhat shaken, I started from Rome intending to return to France.
Such men, when they returned to the desert, were frequently accompanied by numbers of others, whom the fame of their sanctity and the persuasion of their preaching had induced to adopt the eremitical life.
Some young monk of enthusiastic disposition, disgusted with the laxity or the vices of his brother monks, flies from the monastery, and betakes himself to an eremitical life in a neighbouring forest or wild mountain valley.
Anthony was the founder of a monastic colony, which was a direct development from the eremitical life.
From Egypt the movement spread to Palestine, but in Syria and Mesopotamia there was an independent development from the local eremitical ideals.
His monastic rule definitely abandoned the eremitical ideal in favor of the cenobitical.
The purely eremitical life tended to die out, but what took its place continued to be semi-eremitical.
It was at some subsequent date that a division was made between the male and female portions of the settlement, and later still the eremitical idea was grafted on the already existing system.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eremitical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
