He first led an eremitical life in the mountains, near. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
Lindisfarne, there to lead an austere eremitical life. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
Bruno sought to revive the ancient eremitical way of life. From Wordnik.com. [St. Bruno, priest] Reference
Dagobert, then led an eremitical life in a desert in Lorrain, near. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
Tinmouth, and, with the leave of the prior of that house, St. Henry undertook to lead in it an eremitical life. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
By the advice of a prudent director, he then embraced an eremitical life in a plain called Thole, near the foot of. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
Afterwards he led an eremitical life in the isle of Farne, where he died in 669, about eleven years after St. Cuthbert. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
Romuald, leaving them under the conduct of Guarinus, retired into a desert near Cusan, and there led an eremitical life. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
It was a mountain top, exactly suited to the eremitical life. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference
Severus retired to Egypt once more and to his eremitical life. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
The last is a treatise on eremitical life by Blessed Ælred, Abbot of. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
From this imitation sprang the eremitical life and the institution of the cenobites. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
Likewise all eremitical foundations were, at least in their origins, penitential orders. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference
Portugal, where he joined Father Martin a Santa Maria in his life of eremitical solitude. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference
The eremitical monasteries, on the contrary, are everywhere, and especially in the North. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
The original Franciscan life was thus a commingling of the active life with the eremitical. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
It was the eremitical, not the cenobitical, type of monasticism which went forth from Egypt. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
Camaldolese Order; the former foreshadowing the eremitical, the latter the cenobitical, branches. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
The word was first used in this sense when the eremitical life began to be combined with the cenobitical. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference
This condemnation of the eremitical life is interesting because of what might almost be called its tameness. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
The community, which took up its residence in the Nitrian and Scetic deserts, was of the semi-eremitical type. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 16 [Supplement]] Reference
It might be supposed that so uncompromising a verdict against the eremitical life would stir up a fierce conflict. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
His great ideal was to introduce into the West the eremitical life led by the Eastern monks and the Fathers of the Desert. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
The Camaldolese, like other Carthusians, are properly hermits, that is to say, their life is not conventual, but eremitical. From Wordnik.com. [What I Remember]
At a later period actual monasteries both of monks and nuns were formed, and later still the eremitical life came into vogue. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
The dweller in the laura was under an archimandrite or abbot and so was not exposed to the dangers of the purely eremitical state. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
Basil the Great, when founding eremitical settlements on the river Iris in Pontus, spent some time in making selections from Origen. From Wordnik.com. [Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages] Reference
First his elder brother joined him, then others, but all were bent upon pursuing the eremitical life with some modifications proposed by. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference
Shortly after the middle of the fourth century, two monks, Pgol and Pschais, changed their eremitical monasteries into cenobitical ones. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
Desert, Felix conceived a great desire for the eremitical life, but at the same time feared to live otherwise than under the obedience of. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
There were villages or colonies of hermits - the eremitical type; and monasteries in which a community life was led - the cenobitic type. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
(b) The Cenobitical Type of Monasticism This type began in Egypt at a somewhat later date than the eremitical form. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
A system hitherto unknown, and attempted a blending of the cenobitical life of the West with the eremitical life of the East. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
Pierre, began the eremitical life. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference
The eremitical Coelestines, the charitable. From Wordnik.com. [The History and Life of the Reverend Doctor John Tauler with Twenty-Five of his Sermons] Reference
1124) for an austere order of eremitical friars professing the rule of St. Augustine (though they have sometimes been claimed also by the. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
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