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He lives a quasi-eremetical life in a remote Franciscan friary but his books enjoy immense popularity and his regular retreat sermons on Lenten and Advent Sundays in one of the centrally located churches of the Hungarian Capitol are always completely crowded.
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The St. Conleth's Society tells us that "the retreat was given by Fr. David Jones, D.D., who lives an eremetical life at The Hermitage, Duleek, County Meath, and is a published poet of note."
Monastic Retreat in County Waterford: Thoughts on Fostering the Monastic and Liturgical Life 2009
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In the Charterhouse, one may encounter the most authentic form of eremetical/monastic life in existence, not unlike the early desert fathers, far superior to Mt.
Archive 2006-10-01 Terry Nelson 2006
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I found myself at Steubenville and moved on to Holy Family Hermitage, the more strictly enclosed and eremetical of the two Congregations of Camaldolese in the U.S. - at least they were then.
June 19: Feast of St. Romuald Terry Nelson 2006
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In the Charterhouse, one may encounter the most authentic form of eremetical/monastic life in existence, not unlike the early desert fathers, far superior to Mt.
St. Bruno's eve... Terry Nelson 2006
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About the time of the Cluniac and Cistercian reform movements, other efforts were being made to reform by a return to more primitive eremetical life reminiscent of Eastern monasticism.
REFORMATION LEWIS W. SPITZ 1968
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We need no other proof of his wonderful fervor and progress in virtue, and all the exercises of a monastic life, than the testimony of St. Iltutus, by whose advice St. Paul left the monastery to embrace more perfect eremetical life in a retired place in the same country.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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There, in Camaldoli, Romuald built a monastery, "and by several observances he added to St. Benedict's rule, gave birth to a new Order, in which he united the cenobite and eremetical life."
Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Edward Hutton 1922
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In his youth Romuald indulged in the usual thoughtless and even vicious life of the tenth-century noble, yet felt greatly drawn to the eremetical life.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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About this time she travelled in Egypt, where she visited the principal places of monastic and eremetical life, and upon her return to Jerusalem she lived for twelve years, in a hermitage near the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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