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Indian bishop becomes hermit

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.”

URL: https://es.aleteia.org/2022/09/07/un-obispo-indio-renuncia-a-su-cargo-para-convertirse-en-un-ermitano/

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Beach hermit faces eviction – Israel

BBC News report headline (3-minute item): “Hermit in Israel faces eviction from beachside cave home ”

Text: “In Herzliya in Israel, people have begun a petition to try to save a modern-day hermit from being thrown out of his unusual dwelling, built in a cave on the coast. Nisim spent months living by the sea without a home, but then defied the humidity, salt and waves to build a Gaudi-like structure, which has been a local attraction for nearly 50 years. But now the authorities want him to leave, saying he built without permission and is harming the environment. Nisim insists he will not leave his life’s work until he dies.

URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-middle-east-62799226

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“The Mountain Path” (film), by Edward A. Burger

Edward A. Burger, producer of Amongst White Clouds 2005), has now produced The Mountain Path (2021). The earlier film documented Burger’s visit to the Zhongnan Mountains of China in search of Zen Buddhist hermits. The recent film uses footage from the first film with a new focus: “My search for a hermit Zen master in China.” Produced by One Mind Productions, 2021. Two+ minute trailer.

URL: https://vimeo.com/613866673

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Colombia priest-hermit dies

The publication El Tiemp de Colombia reports the death of a hermit, the Polish-born priest Ignatius Jarosz. Fr. Jarosz was consecrated a priest in 1959 at the age of twenty-five. He became a Redemptorist Order priest twenty-five years later, leaving Poland for Czechoslovakia, then Brazil,Argentina, andColombia. He lived as a hermit in the Dagua Mountains of Colombia, on the Pacific side, halfway betweenthecitiesof Cali and Buenaventura. Althouigh known as an afable person among many religious who knew him, Fr. Jarosz never ventured beyond his residence in the mountains.

URL: https://elcomercio.pe/mundo/latinoamerica/ignacio-jarosz-murio-ermitano-que-vivio-medio-siglo-internado-en-montanas-del-valle-holocausto-colombia-narracion-historias-ec-noticia/

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Japan island hermit Masafumi – update

Daily Mail (UK) among other popular media reports on Masafumi Nagasaki, now 87 year old. Masafumi lived as a hermit on the Japanese island of Sotobanari for nearly 29 years and when discovered by popular media was dubbed the “naked hermit” because he had lost his clothes during a typhoon. A number of films and documentaries on Masafumi exist over the years. The Japanese government eventually obliged Masafumi to vacate the island , placing him in public housing in the city of Ishigaki. His return to Sotobanari was a farewell visit.

URL: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10962259/Japans-naked-hermit-spent-29-years-tropical-island-returns-final-farewell.html