He knew and honoured the work of the pious recluseswho had retired to that monastery, although “he had never had the honour of belonging to them.
It was here alone that the recluses from the neighbouring Grange met the sainted sisterhood, and mingled with them the prayers and tears of penitence.
He wished to know those of the other two; but they kept silence and ate their food with the attention which recluses appear to give to every detail of a meal.
In her heart she desired to retire completely from the world; having heard of the wondrous lives of the recluses in Egypt, she longed greatly to see and imitate them.
Macarius of Alexandria, at the head of a large monastery of recluses in cells and caves.
How much good those pious recluses might have done, had their piety taken a more practical form!
But in calling them monks, we must remember that though celibates, and to some extent recluses (for they mixed with the world only in a limited degree), they were not confined in cloisters.
Elsewhere they are harmless recluses whom the unsympathetic critic may pity as useless but can hardly condemn as ambitious or interfering.
Imitate the Recluses of Egypt, the Fathers in the Desert, who were masters in the art of supplication.
In the books of the Egyptian Recluses you will never find the vehemence of a Maddalena de' Pazzi or a Catherine of Siena, the passionate ejaculations of a Saint Angela.
He sits also with the dispassionate Vairagis, and religious recluses sanyasis who are disgusted with the world; and relying on the firm rock of his faith, he wears out his long life with ease.
So great was the early abstractedness from the world, prized by the ancient Aryans, that many monarchs are mentioned to have became religious recluses in their youth).
Nilus=, sprung from a prominent family in Constantinople, retired with his son Theodulus to the recluses of Mount Sinai.
The example and preaching of earnest monks and reclusesdid much to produce a revival of religion and awaken a penitential enthusiasm.
Further evidence can be adduced to show that women recluses in the 13th century occupied public attention to an increasing degree.
A mass of information on the subject has been collected by Cutts[800], who describes how women recluses occupied sometimes a range of cells, sometimes a commodious house; and how they kept one or more servants to run on their errands.
In one passage, where the flight of birds is described, it says, 'the wings that bear the recluses upwards are good principles, which they must move unto good works as a bird that would fly moveth its wings.
But here again the recluses addressed are told that in the eyes of their adviser they incline rather to over-much self-denial than to over-much self-indulgence.
Women recluses might be living at Tarent as elsewhere, since Simon forwarded the book to recluses there, but they would not be members of the Cistercian convent.
I say this in order thatrecluses may not say that I by my authority make new rules for them.
Do you now ask what rule you reclusesshould observe?
From the earliest times the people had held such male and female recluses in special reverence, and the Church, yielding to popular feeling, accepted them as holy, and in some instances countenanced their being ranked as saints.
Again the recluses for whom the book is written are assured that they have least need to be fortified against temptations and trials, sickness only excepted.
In our opinion, cenobites are not lazy men, and recluses are not idlers.
Not one of the young recluses could see him, because of the serge curtain, but he had a sweet and rather shrill voice, which they had come to know and to distinguish.
They did not shut themselves up in their cells and hold no intercourse with their fellow-men; and herein they differed from the recluses who were not supposed to go outside the doors of their anchorages.
Of female recluses we gather many details in the Ancren Riewle of Bishop Poore of Salisbury, who left very minute directions for the regulation of their austere and solitary lives.
The Reclusesor Gymnosophists of India are not unlike the first Recluses of Egypt, and the first hermits of the desert in the Christian era.
It was a beautiful morning when we started, and on the way we passed one or two small monasteries and numerous cells where hermits and recluses were living in retirement and meditation.
Invariably, too, these feathered recluses were extremely shy, scuttling away like frightened deer as I approached their cloistered haunts.
Although these feathered recluses are rarely molested by man, they seem to know enough about his character to look upon him with a suspicious eye when he ventures into their sylvan domain.
The story is an interesting one, but it would take up too much time, and in the meanwhile the recluses might eat up the food which is to keep me from dying of hunger.
I can't give you anything, but you will find recluses on your way who won't let you die of hunger.
The recluses were stupefied when I told them that the fat priest was Cardinal Bernis, as they had an idea that a cardinal can never doff the purple.
It was elaborate work, such as recluses ought not to undertake.
The writer in another place, 368, says that recluses are apt to be far too much concerned about bodily health.
The vows ofrecluses were held very sacred; and the opinions of the Boni-Homines on the monastic question were little in advance of those of the Church of Rome.
Island of Bardsey) was the retreat of numerous recluses and devotees, in ancient times.
It seems likely to have been a seat of the Culdees, or Colidei, the first religious recluses of Great Britain, who sought Islands and desert places, in which they might in security worship the true God.
The lives of the recluses have been severely criticised; they have, upon the faith of some shocking instances, been represented as full of wickedness and corruption; and yet in general the people loved them.
The reclusesof Port-Royal were obliged to close their schools; they had to disperse.
That is excellent; that will be relished," said the recluses of Port- Royal, in spite of the misgivings of M.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "recluses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
