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unusual facts about hermit



Acomb, Northumberland

The pleasing church of St John Lee on the hillside amid the trees is dedicated to St John of Beverley, a local hermit and supposedly worker of miracles.

Atlantic wolffish

They are known to frequently eat large whelks (Buccinum), cockles (Polynices, Chrysodomus and Sipho), sea clams (Mactra), large hermit crabs, starfish, sea urchins and green crabs (Carcinus maenas).

Auxentius

Auxentius of Bithynia or Saint Auxentius (d. 473), a hermit cleared of heresy at the Council of Chalcedon and an Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic saint.

Aventinus of Tours

Living the life of a hermit in Tours, France, before being ordained a deacon by St. Thomas Becket, and subsequently accompanied him to the Synod of Tours in 1163.

Baldred

Saint Baldred of Tyninghame (or Baldred of Strathclyde), Anglo-Saxon hermit and abbot, resident in East Lothian during the 8th century

Bankei Yōtaku

The following year Bankei returned to Harima for a short while, and then left for Yoshino in the Nara Prefecture to live again as a hermit.

Bannus

Bannus (or Banus) is a given name, the occurrence of which is first documented in the writings of Josephus, when referring to a hermit with whom Josephus spent three years in the mid-first century CE.

Bismarck Sea

By the Northern and Northeastern coasts of the islands of New Ireland, New Hanover, the Admiralty Islands, Hermit Island, and the Ninigo Group, through Manu and Aua Islands to Wuvulu Island and thence a line to Baudissin Point in New Guinea (142°02'E).

Buccinum baeri

The hermit crab Pagurus hirsutiusculus (Dana, 1851) can be found in empty shells of Baer's Buccinum.

C. tricolor

Clibanarius tricolor, a hermit crab species found in shallow water of the Caribbean Sea

Céligny

The notable Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, father of the 80/20 theory and Paretos Optimatality, lived in Céligny, earning him the epithet of "hermit of Céligny".

Ciarán of Saigir

He settled as a hermit at Saigir near to the Slieve Bloom Mountains, but soon disciples were attracted to him and a large monastery grew up round his cell, which became the chosen burial place for the Kings of Ossory.

Clibanarius vittatus

Like other hermit crabs, Clibanarius vittatus lives inside the empty shell of a gastropod mollusc.

Corentin of Quimper

He was a hermit at Plomodiern and regarded as one of the seven founder saints of Brittany.

Crowland Abbey

A monk named Guthlac came to what was then an island in the Fens to live the life of a hermit and he dwelt at Croyland between 699 and 714.

Dardanus venosus

As a hermit crab, it lives inside the empty shell of a gastropod mollusc and its soft abdomen and most of its limbs are normally hidden with just the dacryls, or claws, projecting.

David Gundlach

Set in the 1930s, a Tennessee hermit throws his own funeral party while still alive.

Demonology

It is primarily based on the Bible (Old Testament and New Testament), the exegesis of these scriptures, the scriptures of early Christian philosophers and hermits, tradition, and legends incorporated from other beliefs.

Entrée d'Espagne

On his return to Spain, he meets a hermit who forewarns Roland that he will be killed seven years after the French successfully conquer the city of Pamplona.

Ferréol of Uzès

His sister Saint Tarsicia of Rodez (died ca 600) lived as a hermit in the Rouergue near Rodez, where she is still venerated by the Benedictines, with a feast day of January 15.

Flemish Baroque painting

Painted for the Arquebusiers' guild, the Descent from the Cross triptych (1611–14; Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp)—with side wings depicting the Visitation and Presentation in the Temple, and exterior panels showing St. Christopher and the Hermit—is an important reflection of Counter-Reformation ideas about art combined with Baroque naturalism, dynamism and monumentality.

Godric of Finchale

Upon Aelric's death, Godric made one last pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and then returned home where he convinced Ranulf Flambard, the Bishop of Durham, to grant him a place to live as a hermit at Finchale, by the River Wear.

Gurthiern

was a Welsh prince who, according to the Vita sancta Gurthierni, became a hermit in Brittany, and founder of an abbey at Kemperle (Quimperlé).

Hasungen Abbey

In 1074 a monastery was built, on the authority of Siegfried I, Archbishop of Mainz, over the grave of the hermit Heimerad (d. 1019), who had had a little chapel and hermitage here.

Ian McGettigan

McGettigan continues to record and perform with Thrush Hermit's Rob Benvie in Camouflage Nights.

Imerius of Immertal

Imerius (Himerius, Imier, Immer) of Immertal (d. ca. 620 AD) was a monk, hermit, and missionary in the Swiss Jura.

James Octavius Machell

Machell had three of Chaplin's horses - Breadalbane, Broomielaw and Hermit - transferred to Bedford Cottage from William Goater’s yard in Findon, West Sussex.

Janine Pommy Vega

During the early-1970s, Vega lived as a hermit on the Isla del Sol in Lake Titicaca on the Bolivian-Peruvian border.

Laisrén

Saint Molaise of Leighlin (died 639), abbot of Leighlin and hermit of Holy Isle

Law and Chaos

Present at the gathering are Sepiriz of Nihrain, who advises Elric in Stormbringer; Abaris of the Magi; Lamsar the Hermit, who guides Rackhir to the Grey Lords in "To Rescue Tanelorn"; the Warrior in Jet and Gold (who also appears in The Dragon in the Sword); Aleryon-a-Nyvish of the Temple of Law, a priest of Ilah in The Queen of the Swords; and the Silver Queen from Phoenix in Obsidian.

Mariana de Jesús de Paredes

She was a hermit who is said to have sacrificed herself for the salvation of Quito.

Meinrad of Einsiedeln

After some years at Reichenau, the dependent priory of Benken, St. Gallen near Lake Zurich, he embraced an eremitical life and established his hermitage on the slopes of Etzel Pass, taking with him a wonder-working statue of the Virgin Mary which he had been given by the Abbess Hildegarde of Zurich.

Monastic Fraternities of Jerusalem

Order of Watchers (Ordre des Veilleurs), a French Protestant fraternity of hermits.

Nigrodharama

Near Nigrodhārāma was once the site of the dwelling of a hermit (isi) called Kanha.

P. bakeri

Paguristes bakeri, Holmes, 1900, a hermit crab species in the genus Paguristes

Pagurus prideaux

Like other hermit crabs, P. prideaux has an asymmetric, unarmoured abdomen and protects this by concealing it within the empty shell of a gastropod of appropriate size and shape, and carrying it around by clasping onto an internal part of the columella of the sea snail shell.

Paulines

Paulists, several Roman Catholic orders and congregations under the patronage of St Paul the Hermit and including the Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit and the Minims

Psalmodius

Psalmodius became a hermit in a small cell in the forest of Grigeas or Grie, in the Limousin near Eymoutiers.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Quimper

The hermit Saint Ronan, a native of Ireland, often held to be one of the 350 bishops consecrated by Saint Patrick, was in the fifth century one of the apostles of Cornouailles and the neighbourhood around Léon.

Saint Justinian

Saint Justinian of Ramsey Island (also Stinan, Jestin or Iestin, died 6th-century), hermit who lived on Ramsey Island, near St. David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales

San Onofre

Onuphrius, known as San Onofre in Spanish and São Onofre in Portuguese, 4th-century Egyptian hermit honored as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church

St. Mang's Abbey, Füssen

The reason for its foundation goes back to the hermit Magnus of Füssen (otherwise known as Saint Mang), who built a cell and an oratory here, where he died on 6 September, although there is no record of which year.

Stavropoleos Monastery

The music sung during the offices is neo-Byzantine, based on the works of 19th century Romanian psalmodists: Macarie the Hieromonk, Nectarie the Hermit, Anton Pann, Dimitrie Suceveanu, Greek chants translated into Romanian, or modern compositions.

Stephen V of Hungary

He attended the place of the find, where he met a hermit who told him: "Scourge of God".

Tang Gao

As the Number One Scholar(狀元) in the ninth year (1514) of Zhengde Emperor(正德皇帝) in Ming Dynasty, Tang Gao (唐皋,1469-1526), styled himself as Shouzhi(守之), Xin’an(心庵), and Ziyang hermit(紫陽山人), was born in Yansi town(巖寺鎮), She county(歙縣), Huizhou(徽州府), South Zhili(南直隸).

Thomas Bewick

Works using his wood engraving technique, for which he became well known, include the engravings for Oliver Goldsmith's Traveller and The Deserted Village, for Thomas Parnell's Hermit, and for William Somervile's Chase.

Venerius

Venerius the Hermit (ca. 560 - 630), monk and hermit, patron saint of lighthouse keepers and of the Italian town of La Spezia

Vicinius of Sarsina

Shortly before the great persecutions of Diocletian and Maximinus II, he withdrew as a hermit to a mountain about six kilometres from Sarsina which is now named after him (Monte San Vicinio, in the present commune of Mercato Saraceno).

Wimborne St Giles

St Giles and All Hallows refer to the respective dedications of the churches, Saint Giles being an eighth century hermit of Provençal origin and All Hallows meaning all saints.


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