Catholic media site Aleteia reports in an item headline: ” An Indian bishop resigns his position to become… a hermit.” Monsignor Jacob Muricken, auxiliary bishop of the diocese of Pala, of the Syro-Malabar church, in the state of Kerala (southern India), left his position to enter a cave hermitage. The monsignor has a long-standing repute for asceticism, being a vegetarian eating two meals daily. He donated a kidney to a Hindu colleage . Fr. Jacob indicated that he looked forward to a life of “God and nature.”