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Hermits: Catholic (Spain) - Our Lady of Montserrat monastery
images from a friend of Hermitary at the monastery.
1-3. Father Estanilau, who died in Spring, 2003; hermit for 40 years, at
Montserrat, Israel, India, and Japan.
4-5. Father Basili Girbau, who died in late December 2003, was successor
hermit to Fr. Estanilau.
(images from Integral magazine)
Hermits: Catholic (world; USA)
images from Web sites
- Charles de Foucauld, France & Africa (1858-1916 )
- Rachel Denton, canonical hermit in the Catholic diocese of Lincoln, UK
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Escobar, Colombian-born priest, residing in Qadisha hermitage, Lebanon
- Yuanna Kwawand, priest, Lebanon
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Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
- Dunstan Morrissey, California, d. 2009
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Richard Withers, first canonical hermit in the Catholic archdiocese of Philadelphia, USA
Hermits: Orthodox (Greece) - Mt. Athos
images from Philip Sherrard, Athos, the Holy Mountain. Photographs by
Takis Zevoulakos.
London: Alexandria Press; Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 1982.
Hermits: Other Christian
images from Web sites
1. Karen Markham, contemporary Anglican hermit, Shropshire, UK
2. Father Louis Fair, American Orthodox bishop, hermit in Hawaii (died
Oct, 2005)
3. Father Lazarus, a Coptic monk, lives in a desert area of Egypt (image © Magnum Photos).
4. Daniel Bourguet, French Protestant hermit (see Hermitary article)
5. Russian author Leo Tolstoy (left) with a hermit named Peter (image © Archive Photos).
Sadhus: Hindu (India)
images from Dolf Hartsuiker, Sadhus: India's Mystic Holy Men.
Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 1993.
Digambara: Jain (India)
images from Kurt Titze,
Jainism: a Pictorial Guide to the Religion of Non-violence.
Delhi: Mohtilal Banarsidass, 1998.
Hermits: Taoist and Buddhist (China)
images (1-4) from Porter, Bill. Road to Heaven: Encounters with
Chinese Hermits. With photographs by Steven R. Johnson and the author.
San Francisco, Mercury House, 1993.
Image 5 from Web site
Hermits: Buddhist (India/Tibetan)
Images from John Crook and James Low. The Yogins of Ladakh: A
Pilgrimage Among the Hermits of the Buddhist Himalayas. Delhi: Motilal
Banarsidass, 1997.
NOTE: images in book were
not good resolution, more detail lost in scanning.
Hermit Gomchen of Latchen in front of his hermitage, from Alexandra David-Neel,
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Hermits: Buddhist (India/Western)
Tensin Palmo outside her Himalayan cave, from Vickie MacKenzie.
A Cave in the Snow.
"Ferals": Australia
A feral is defined by the Macquarie Dictionary
(Australian English) as "a person who espouses environmentalism to the point of
living close to nature in more or less primitive conditions and who deliberately
shuns the normal code of society with regard to dress, habitat, hygiene, etc."
Here are several "feral" hermits.
copyrighted images from Corbis, hence watermarks; text
from Corbis
- Couple living as hermits in Australia. Original caption: Whereas most 'ferals' live in tribes, Robi and Flame live as
hermits.
- Original caption: Robi and Flame both have a university education and have given up everything in order to protect nature.
- Black Foot fought in wars but is now a pacifist. He lives as a hermit and sculpts totems.
Hermits: Europe & USA
images from Web sites
- John Smith, estate hermit at Erving
Castle, Erving, Massachusetts (died 1900).
- John Noah Rondeau (1883-1967), Adirondack (NY) hermit
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Perley Swett, New Hampshire hermit
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Mason Walton, hermit of Gloucester, Massachusetts (1838-1917)
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Hermit outside his shack, Freeport, Maine, 1936 (from Library of Congress)
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Richard Zimmerman, called "Dugout Dick" (1916-2010), Idaho hermit
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"Jeannie, the Lady Hermit of the Cornish Cliffs" - 19th century
postcard, Cornwall, England
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