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St. Jerome is said to have spent two years as a hermit in the desert, searching for inner peace.
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The monastery is also home to pink-robe-wearing novice monks, who train at Taung Kalat, and yetis, or hermit monks, who glide in their peaked caps in quiet contemplation across the precariously balanced complex.
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Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2025
Our local guide, Joseph, noted that the once dapper distinguished Gaudi in advanced years became a disheveled hermit living in the church’s workshop.
—Gqlshare, Orange County Register, 15 Jan. 2025
This fuzzy green hermit has become synonymous with Christmas-hating curmudgeons and greedy holiday buzzkills worldwide since Dr. Seuss introduced him in his 1957 children's book of the same name.
—Mike Miller, People.com, 19 Dec. 2024
This is due to the fact that a hermit once lived here.
—Jessica Jungbauer, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2024
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Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2025
Our local guide, Joseph, noted that the once dapper distinguished Gaudi in advanced years became a disheveled hermit living in the church’s workshop.
—Gqlshare, Orange County Register, 15 Jan. 2025
This fuzzy green hermit has become synonymous with Christmas-hating curmudgeons and greedy holiday buzzkills worldwide since Dr. Seuss introduced him in his 1957 children's book of the same name.
—Mike Miller, People.com, 19 Dec. 2024
This is due to the fact that a hermit once lived here.
—Jessica Jungbauer, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2024
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“Hermit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hermit. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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