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Example sentences for: hermitage
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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.
There are art lovers who rave about paintings locked in the basement of the Hermitage.
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.
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.