While most of the other legends give us the Franciscan tradition of the great convents, the Fioretti are almost the only document which shows it as it was perpetuated in the hermitages and among the people.
Up to this time we have seen the brethren living together in their hermitages or roving the highways, preaching repentance.
A tempest of revolt swept over the hermitages of Umbria.
Vallombrosa, its convent and its hermitagesare in the midst of solitude, as indeed a retreat, pious or otherwise, should be.
And Prabhavati, beholding there various hermitages once occupied by Rama, told him the story of Rama for his amusement.
Thus far these hermitages excite more disgust than compassion.
The hermitageswere once thirteen in number; each was separate, and with difficulty accessible.
It is impossible to give one tithe of the hermitages in caves that are to be seen in Europe; but a few words may be devoted to La Sainte Beaume in Var, where, according to tradition, Mary Magdalen spent the end of her days.
Forbes says: "The traveller should visit the ruined hermitages of Sta.
Above Cordova, also in the Sierra, are rock hermitages serving in Andalusia the same purpose that did those of Montserrat in Catalonia.
Hermytt depting at Roiston in ys pysh" It is true that this entry does not absolutely fix the residence of the hermit at the cave, but it is hardly probable that there were two hermitages in so small a town.
It determined, he says, eighty questions concerning the interpretation of the Rule; hereafter those who serve the Lord in hermitages and are obedient to their bishops are secured against molestation by any person.
They had merely been called the Brethren of the Hermitages until the Council of Constance established them as an organization virtually independent of the Conventuals, when they took the name by which they have since been known.
Lancelot hath set him forth again upon his way, and rideth by the high forests and findeth holds and hermitages enough, but the story maketh not remembrance of all the hostels wherein he harboured him.
The hermits went back to their hermitagesin the forest and served Our Lord as they had been wont.
Soon five little hermitages clustered around his cell, and a church was built for the accommodation of the anchorites.
The forest hermitages were the universities of ancient India.
This shows us why he made so many houses of his Order, where there had previously been hermitages only.
It was easy for me to find him, as he frequently turned aside to go to the hermitages of the brothers Minorites or some other religious Order, to gain their prayers.
But before the seventh century closed, their sea hermitages were harried by Norsemen who were sailing upon quite different ventures.
But many of the hermitages were erected along the great highways of the country, and especially at bridges and fords,[104] apparently with the express view of their being serviceable to travellers.
There are indications that these hermitages were sometimes mere bothies of branches; there is a representation of one, from which we here give a woodcut, in an illuminated MS.
Hermitages also, we have seen, were frequently built along the high roads, especially near bridges and fords, for the purpose of aiding travellers.
This curious extract from "Piers Ploughman" leads us to notice the localities in which hermitages were situated.
And there were stately monasteries in the rich valleys; and castles crowned the hills; and moated manor-houses lay buried in their woods; and hermitages stood by the dangerous fords.
But nearly all the hermitages which we read of in the romances, or see depicted in the illuminations and paintings, or find noticed in ancient historical documents, are substantial buildings of stone or timber.
It was not very unusual for hermitages to be built for more than one occupant; but probably, in all such cases, each hermit had his own cell, adjoining their common chapel.
Illustrations of St. Anthony, which give authorities for hermit costume, and indications of what hermitages were, abound in the later MSS.
Hermitages or anchorages sometimes depended on a monastery, and were not necessarily occupied by brethren of the monastery, but by any one desirous to embrace this mode of life whom the convent might choose.
Hermitages sprang up everywhere, with hermits, real or dummy.
Their choice of sites for monasteries and hermitages fully bears out this view.
Many churches, and we may say, almost all the hermitages of the surrounding country belonged to them.
They have deserted their hermitages and are a very popular order in Italy, devoting themselves especially to preaching and hearing confessions, and form quite a distinct family from the rest.
In the day they go into the cities and the villages to gain over souls and to work; in the night they betake themselves to hermitages and solitary places and give themselves up to contemplation.
The appearance of these Brahmanical hermitages in the country far away to the south of the Raj of Kasala, seems to call for critical inquiry.
There was the House of Converts; there were several hospitals and hermitages and "Ancherholds"--solitary little cells and cabins standing in the fields and adjoining abbeys or parish churches.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hermitages" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
