By the twelfth century in England, however, aspirants to anchoritic life were pious lay people. |
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Today there seems to be a movement of the Holy Spirit calling forth the anchoritic vocation once again. |
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In other words, the anchoritic life of the 3rd century I felt probably didn't exist. |
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After two years or more at Antioch, he finally withdrew to the desert of Chalcis to undertake the penitential life of an anchoritic monk. |
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Denis Renevey sees Margery's text as a commentary on her body's public performance of anchoritic discursive and lay devotional practices. |
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