- Look up
anchorite in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In Christianity, an
anchorite or anc****t (female: anc****ss; from
Ancient Gr****: ἀναχωρέω, romanized: anakhōréō...
- life of a
Christian monastery is
called cenobitic, as
opposed to the
anc****tic (or anchoritic) life of an
anchorite and the
eremitic life of a hermit...
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paragraph 20: "At one time Abba
Agathon had two
disciples each
leading the
anc****tic life
according to his own measure. One day he
asked the first, 'How do...
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female asceticism existed as
women could enter into domestic, monastic, or
anc****tic lifestyles. The
Desert Mothers were
known as
ammas ("spiritual mothers")...
- a
monastery in
Photiki and that
Epirus in the 450s at
least had both
anc****tic and
coenobitic monastic communities. From
around 460, a
series of six...
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Great Britain, his own country,
accompanied him into Armorica, led an
anc****tical life near him in the
country of Ack, and
afterwards in the isle of Baz...
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finding the
monks averse to
regularity he left the abbacy, and led an
anc****tical life in a cave near the
river Seine five
years and six months. His only...
