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Sister Wendy, hermit, RIP

The New York Times (as well as every other major media source) recently announced that: “Sister Wendy Beckett, Nun Who Became a BBC Star, Dies at 88.” Sister Wendy became a television celebrity with her art history television productions in the 1990s, an unlikely presenter because she was a Catholic nun. What few knew was that she was also a hermit when not before the camera, living in a windowless trailer on the grounds of a Carmelite convent in England.

URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/26/obituaries/sister-wendy-beckett-dead.html

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Modern hermits in photos

Media site Insider offers an item titled “Intimate photos show what it’s really like to be a modern-day hermit.” Among the hermits are some familiar, some less so: Rachel Denton (UK), Masafumi Nagasaki (Japan), Barry Edgar Pilcher (Ireland), Viktor (Siberia), Sostis (Greece), Valentin Pantin, wife Ekaterina, and four children, (Russia), Yiorgos (Greece), and several others.

URL: https://www.thisisinsider.com/inside-the-lives-of-modern-day-hermits-intimate-photos-2018-12

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Agafya Lykov update

India Today adds an update titled “See the daily routine an Old Believer hermit living in Siberia” re Agafya Lykov, the Russian hermit living in Siberia, who is regularly reported on in this blog and is the subject of several film documentaries. In December 2018, the 74-year old Agafya contacted a journalist because she lacked essential supplies, and a delivery of food, medicine and hay were delivered. Includes a short video from Ruptly (Russia Today, RT); see below.

URL: https://www.indiatoday.in/world-special/video/see-the-daily-routine-an-old-believer-hermit-living-in-siberia-1411602-2018-12-17

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“Eremo” – eremitism web site

Eremo is a Switzerland-based web site on the subject of the hermit life, edited and maintained by Brother Markus. The dominant tradition is Hinduism, but Brother Markus includes Buddhist and Christian mystics as resources in his articles on various aspects of eremitism, and in his recommended readings. The Hindu term “Brahmacharya” is emblematic, defined as “a lifestyle adopted to enable one to attain the Ultimate Reality.” And that lifestyle is the lifestyle of the hermit, supplemented by the practice of virtue, meditation, yoga, and careful readings of classic sages. The site is in German, with English and Spanish translations of the site as options. Supplemented by photos of Brother Markus’ hermitage and environs.

URL: https://www.eremo.ch/

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Mauro Morandi update

Mauro Morandi, a 79-year old hermit on the small island of Budelli in southern Italy for nearly thirty years, is threatened with eviction, reports Il Globo.

Budelli was recently incorporated into Sardinia’s Maddalena Archipelago national park, and authorities claim that his presence on the island is incompatible with that designation. Morandi, who survived an eviction attempt several years ago due to thousands of petitions on his behalf, argues that, on the contrary, his presence protects the isalnd’s fauna and flora from the neglect of tourists and other island visitors.

URL: https://ilglobo.com.au/news/41224/italian-hermit-fights-eviction-after-30-years-of-solitude-on-sardinian-island