Modern Christian Hermits (Men) - Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Maronite, Coptic

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These men of modern times (twentieth century through the present) represent distinctive biographies and interests but all converge in their understanding of a common Christian expression. Here are Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Maronite, and Coptic, converging around the initial spark of the early Chrtian desert hermits. Some are closer, literally, to that origin in their expression, especially of the smaller rites, while others follow a more indirect route: ecumenism via Indian Hinduism (Abhishtananda, Bede), meditation (Basili, Dunstan), through study (Fr. Escobar, Fr. Youhanna), public writings (Merton, Bunge, Bourguet), poetry (Lax), art (Hart), nature (Brandt), in service (Foucauld, Antoine, Withers, Fr. Theo, Fr. Hugo), in austerities (Maxime). Each hermit refracts the spiritual tradition he has embraced to extend its light into new dimensions, all from the perspective of an eremitism that is both a private vehicle and a public presence anticipating the variety of ways that a Christian eremitism can survive into the future.

MODERN CHRISTIAN HERMITS (MEN)

1. Charles de Foucauld (1858-1916), France
2. Henri Le Saux (Abhishiktananda, 1910-1973), France/India
3. Frere Antoine (b. 1923), France
4. Daniel Bourguet (b. 1946), France
5. Fr. Basili Girbau (1925-2003), Spain
6. Fr. Estanislau (1915-2003), Spain
7. Bede Griffiths (1906-1993)UK/India
8. Thomas Merton (1915-1968), USA
9. Robert Lax (1915-2000), USA/Greece
10. Dunstan Morrissey (1923-2009), USA
11. Charles Brandt (1923-2020), Canada
12. Richard Withers (b. 1955), USA
13. Fr. Hugo (b. 1976), Netherlands
14. Theo van Osch (b. 1960)Netherlands/France
15.Dario Escobar( b. 1927), Colombia/Lebanon
16. Youhanna Khawand (b. 1936), Lebanon
17. Fr. Anthony El Lazarus. Australia/Egypt
18. Gabriel Bunge (b. 1940), Switzerland
19. Aidan Hart (b. 1957), UK
20. Maxime Qavtaradze (b. 1958), Georgia