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Charles Buck Dictionary
• Hermit
Dictionary of Early Christian Biography
• Malchus, a Hermit in Syria
• Macarius, an Egyptian Hermit or Monk
• Hilarion (1), a Hermit of Palestine
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1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Peter the Hermit
• Paul the First Hermit, Saint
• Hermits of Saint Augustine
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Webster Dictionary
• Hermitical
• Hermit
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Augustinian Hermits
• Hermit
• Peter the Hermit
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Caradoc, Saint, Priest, and Hermit
• Hermit
• Paul (St.) the Hermit.
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Peter the Hermit
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Charles Hermite
• Hermits
• Hermits of St. Augustine
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A person who retires into solitude for the purpose of devotion. Who were the first hermits cannot easily be known; though Paul, surnamed the hermit, is generally reckoned the first. The persecutions of Decius and Valerian were supposed to have occasioned their first rise.