Events Tagged: "hermit"

St. Mary Magdalene withdraws to cave at Sainte-Baume - begins 30 years of hermetic life, miraculously fed by angels according to tradition

St. Anthony the Great goes to Egyptian desert - first Christian hermit, begins desert monasticism at age 20

St. Benedict retreats to Subiaco cave - three years as hermit before founding monastic communities

St. Leonard defeats forest dragon - hermit saint confronts dragon in Limousin forest (French hagiographies)

St. Giles dies in France - hermit and abbot, only non-martyr of Fourteen Holy Helpers, patron of disabled

St. Giles born in Athens - becomes hermit in France, fed by doe's milk, wounded by arrow meant for doe

Foucauld in Nazareth lives as hermit servant at Poor Clare convent - develops intense Holy Face devotion