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Saturday, March 24, 2012

UK: An anchoress speaks


How I became a

medieval-style anchorite

The author, a hermit, explains how she was transformed in her mid-50s

from a professional woman into a 'prisoner of the Lord'

By Anonymous on Wednesday, 29 February 2012


An anchorite's cell at Fore Abbey, County Westmeath, Ireland

An anchorite's cell at Fore Abbey, County Westmeath, Ireland

Before 2003 I thought that hermits were extinct – as dead as a Dodo.

I had heard of some of the medieval hermit saints, but in the 21st century,

in Britain, surely not.