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90 year-old hermit Darío Escobar

Popular Colombia media site El Tiempo presents a tribute to Colombian-born hermit and Lebanon resident Father Darío Escobar. The article is based on an 18-minute video. Fr. Escobar indicates that in Lebanon, where he has lived for thirty-five years, he is the last hermit. From the interiew: “This 90-year-old hermit prays for 14 hours straight, dedicates 3 hours to his daily chores, studies for 2 hours, and sleeps from 7 pm to 12 am. After this, he begins his day praying.” Original text and video in Spanish.

URL (article): https://www.eltiempo.com/cultura/gente/el-ermitano-mas-viejo-del-mundo-es-colombiano-este-es-el-mensaje-de-amor-que-envia-3464149; video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP-PDeFE13Q

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New England hermit tourism

Atlas Obscura, a popular resource about curious and intriging travel sites and features, is both a website and a book offering guide material but also background articles. “The Curious History of New England’s Hermit Tourism,” by Ryan Shea, is bylined: “From Revolutionary War-era recluses to 1920s roadside attractions, meet the solitary figures who turned isolation into a destination.” The article author mentions Hermitary and had conversed with us about the topic. The article specifically highlights the historical Americana hermits Sarah Bishop, Robert Voorhis, John Smith of Erving Castle, and Dug-Out Dan,.

URL: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/new-england-hermit-tourism

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“But the Flowers Remain”-film

Glimpsing a remote Romanian family living in self-sufficient seclusion, this 13-minite video presented by Aeon is titled But the Flowers Remain. The film is reminescent of the Russian Lykov family made familiar to the world through the 1994 book Lost in the Taiga by Vasily Peskov. From the video: “Life moves slowly in a Romanian mountain village, shaped by care and the seasons. But the Flowers Remain documents the rhythms of daily life for one family in a secluded mountain village in Romania.”

URL: https://aeon.co/videos/life-moves-slowly-in-a-romanian-mountain-village-shaped-by-care-and-the-seasons

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Richard Withers, hermit

Richard Withers became the first canonical hermit in Philadelphia in 2011, and recently became a priest — at the age of seventy. Withers retains his eremical life style. A short notice announces his new religious status, with a fuller summary of his life and work included in a Wikipedia page about him.

URL: (announcement) https://catholicphilly.com/2025/05/features/our-new-priests/at-70-trailblazer-becomes-first-hermit-priest-in-archdiocese-of-philadelphia/; (Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Withers

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Fr. Basili in Wikipedia-Spain

Fr. Basili Girbau, the Spanish hermit profiled in two Hermitary articles, is represented in Viquipedia, the Catalan-language version of the English-language Wikipedia. The Catalan source includes a bibliographical reference to the Hermitary article titled “‘Disillusionment is Positive’: Conversation with Basili Girbau, hermit of Montserrat.”

URL (Catalan): https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basili_Girbau_i_Permanyer; Hermitary article: https://hermitary.com/articles/interview.html.