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Posted on December 31, 2004September 12, 2008

Irish anchoress

Here is the web site of an anchoress in an “isolated hermitage atop a remote Irish mountain.” Includes prayers, reflections and wonderful photographs. URL: http://www.iol.ie/~anchorhold/. Brought to our attention in a communication from the anchoress.

Posted on December 23, 2004September 12, 2008

Mennonite recluse

This page from Mennonite Life tells the modest story of the reclusive Ohio Mennonite Abraham Nofziger and reprints posthumously his sayings. URL: http://www.bethelks.edu/mennonitelife/2002dec/wiebe_story.php. Submitted by a friend of Hermitary.

Posted on December 22, 2004September 12, 2008

Wisconsin hermit/homeless

A 1934 photo from the Wisconsin Historical Society labeled “Joseph Smith, Hermit” portrays a man “rescued from squalid shack.” URL: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullRecord.asp?id=16121.

Posted on December 21, 2004September 12, 2008

Hermit image in tarot

“Iconology of the Hermit Cards” is an article by Dr. Robert O’Neill that traces the depiction of the hermit in the tarot as preliminary to identifying its meaning. URL: http://att.tarot.com/about-tarot/library/boneill/hermit.

Posted on December 17, 2004September 12, 2008

Hermits in Art: German print

In the picture collection of the New York Public Library is a German-language print: a juvenile rhyme about the owl, cleverly depicted in the picture as a hermit with monkish habit and staff, emerging from his hermitage. URL: http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/browseresults.cfm?&trg=3&name=NBott%2C%20C%2E&strucID=459950&pstrucid=409758&title=Vom%20Uhu%2E&dstart=1.

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