Words similar to hermitage
Example sentences for: hermitage
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Father Jerome built a small Hermitage on the heights of Mount Alvernia that you’ll see as you reach the summit (a 15-minute walk from a rudimentary car park); the missionary was buried in a small hilltop cave here upon his death in 1956 at the age of 80.
Similarly, the mystic, Lady Julian of Norwich (1342-post 1416) took her masculine name from the Chapel of St. Julian where she had her Hermitage.
There are art lovers who rave about paintings locked in the basement of the Hermitage.
On the next hill to the north — and unless you’re a serious walker you’ll have to go back through Felanitx to reach it — the Puig de Sant Salvador is the site of a hermitage and one of Mallorca’s most important places of pilgrimage.
This settlement originally served as a hermitage for Father Jerome, an Anglican missionary who had converted to Catholicism and become an influential churchman on the Out Islands, responsible for the erection of a number of Catholic Churches.