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Anchoress

Anchoress

anchoress

(Greek: anachoreo, withdraw)

Men who renounce the world in order to spend their lives alone in penance and prayer; women are known as anchoresses. See also:

hermit

patrons of hermits

New Catholic Dictionary

Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

Anchoress

a female anchoret.

Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature