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Máel Ruba (c. 642–722) is an Irish saint of the Celtic Church who was active in the Christianisation of the Picts and Gaels of Scotland.Originally a monk from Bangor Abbey, County Down, Gaelic Ireland, he founded the monastic community of Applecross (Scottish Gaelic: A' Chomraich [ə ˈxoməriç], 'The Sanctuary') [1] in Wester Ross, one of the best attested early Christian monasteries in ...
On 12 November, Rufus, legend, without any historical proof, the supposed first Bishop of Avignon, who is perhaps identical with Rufus, the disciple of Paul (21 November). [2] On 21 November, Rufus the disciple of the Apostles, who lived at Rome and to whom Saint Paul sent a greeting, as well as he did also to the mother of Rufus (Romans 16:13 ...
He was named after his uncle, Theobald of Vienne, also considered a saint. [4] As a youth, Theobald admired the lives of hermits such as John the Baptist, Paul the First Hermit, Anthony the Abbot and Arsenius the Great. He would visit a local hermit named Burchard, who lived on an island in the Seine. [4]
Rufus and Zosimus (died 107 AD) are 2nd century Christian martyrs venerated by the Roman Catholic and the Eastern Orthodox churches. They lived in Antioch and were martyred with Ignatius of Antioch during the persecution of Christians under the Roman emperor Trajan . [ 1 ]
Paul of Thebes (Coptic: Ⲁⲃⲃⲁ Ⲡⲁⲩⲗⲉ; Koinē Greek: Παῦλος ὁ Θηβαῖος, Paûlos ho Thēbaîos; Latin: Paulus Eremita; c. 227 – c. 341), commonly known as Paul the First Hermit or Paul the Anchorite, was an Egyptian saint regarded as the first Christian hermit and grazer, [2] who was claimed to have lived alone in the desert of Thebes in Roman Egypt from the age ...
It appeared in the short-story collection Twenty-Three Tales which was first translated into English for an edition released by Funk & Wagnalls in 1907. The title refers to its three central characters; unnamed simple monks living on a remote island in a life of prayer and contemplation "for the salvation of their souls."
The hermit and mystic Saint Seraphim of Sarov, one of the most venerated saints of the Russian Orthodox church, was living in Sarov from 1778 to 1833. In 1903, the monastery was visited by Tsar Nicholas II and other members of the imperial family.
Robert E. Harrill, or Harrell (February 2, 1893 – June 4, 1972), was an American man also known as the Fort Fisher Hermit. He became a hermit in 1955, at the age of 62, having hitchhiked to Fort Fisher on the North Carolina coast from Morganton , North Carolina .