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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
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Webster Dictionary
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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
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The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Charles Hermite
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(Gr. ἐρημός , desert), one devoted to religious solitude; properly, the solitude of a wilderness. It became, at a later period, the name of certain classes of monks. (See MONASTICISM); (See MONE).