In the West in about the year 500, Benedict became so upset by the immorality of society in Rome that he gave up his studies there and chose the life of an ascetic monk in the pursuit of personal holiness, living as a hermit in a cave near the rugged region of Subiaco.

In this story Filipo Balducci is a hermit living with his son on Mount Asinaio after the death of his wife and travels occasionally to Florence for supplies.

The majority of crustaceans are aquatic, living in either marine or freshwater environments, but a few groups have adapted to life on land, such as terrestrial crabs, terrestrial hermit crabs, and woodlice.

The Carmelites venerate Telesphorus as a patron saint of the order since some sources depict him as a hermit living on Mount Carmel.

Each hermit — that is, a monk who is or who will be a priest — has his own living space, called a cell, usually consisting of a small dwelling.

Guthlac was a Mercian nobleman who abandoned a career of violence to become first a monk at Repton, and later a hermit living in a barrow at Crowland, in the East Anglian fens.

Ḵaachx ̱ án was supposedly a hermit who preferred living away from his relatives, and lived in a smokehouse located on the rear shore of the lake, which was named after him.

According to local legend, he was a hermit living in very poor circumstances and when the authorities tried to tax him, he evaded them.

As early as the 11th century AD hermit monks were believed to be living among the caves and cutouts in the rocks.

In an effort to preserve their roots in the hermit life, the Discalced Augustinians practice strict silence and have in every province a house dedicated to recollection situated in some retired place, to which friars striving after greater perfection can retire in order to practice severe penance, living only on water, bread, fruits, olive oil and wine.

In the Life of Saint Guthlac – a biography of the East Anglian hermit who lived in the Fens during the early 8th century – it is stated that Saint Guthlac was attacked on several occasions by people he believed were Britons living in the Fens at that time.

Often, both in religious and secular literature, the term " hermit " is also used loosely for any Christian living a secluded prayer-focused life, and sometimes interchangeably with anchorite / anchoress, recluse and " solitary ".

In modern colloquial usage, the term " hermit " denotes anyone living a life apart from the rest of society, or who simply does not participate in social events as much as is common, regardless of their motivation in doing so, including the misanthrope.

In 1826 Ryōkan became ill and was unable to continue living as a hermit.

This habit of living in a second hand shell gives rise to the popular name " hermit crab ", by analogy to a hermit who lives alone.

It begins in the year 1583 CE, with a letter from Sasaki Sukeyasu to his former teacher, Kanemaki Jisai, who has retired and is living as a hermit in a small coastal village, to please take care of his only son Sasaki Kojirō.

The graveyard is also where Roger Crab the 17th-century hermit is buried after living on a diet solely of herbs, roots, leaves, grass and water.

The possibility of this occurrence is supported by the Life of Saint Guthlac-a biography written about the East Anglian religious hermit who lived in the Fens during the early 8th century-it is stated that Saint Guthlac was attacked by people he believed were Britons living in the Fens at that time, 200 years after the establishment of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, although Bertram Colgrave in the introduction to The Life of Saint Guthlac states that is very unlikely due to the lack of evidence for British survival in the region and the fact that British placenames in the area are " very few ".

* In March 2007, Waverley Council started proceedings to evict a hermit who was living in squalor on a cliff overlooking the beach.

A Vanaprastha () is a person who is living in the forest as a hermit after partially giving up material desires.

He decided to turn his back on society, take Buddhist vows, and became a hermit, living outside the capital.

( as opposed to living as a wild hermit, which was, and remains, a common spiritual practice in India.

According to legend, the Knight Gaspard de Stérimberg returned home wounded in 1224 from the Albigensian Crusade and was given permission by the Queen of France to build a small refuge to recover in, where he remained living as a hermit ( ermite in French ).

* Hannah Jarvis: The author of a popular best-seller on Byron's mistress Lady Caroline Lamb, Hannah is researching the elusive hermit of Sidley Park, who lived in the hermitage there in the early 19th century.

As a result, anchorites are usually considered to be a type of religious hermit, although there are distinctions in their historical development and theology.

Since suitable intact gastropod shells are sometimes a limited resource, there is often vigorous competition among hermit crabs for shells.

In the manga, there are five instances of its use, the first by the Alter hermit that taught this to Kazuma, and then Kazuma himself.

During his period as a hermit in the mid 12th century, Peter Abelard dedicated his chapel to the Paraclete because " I had come there as a fugitive and, in the depths of my despair, was granted some comfort by the grace of God.

For several centuries the hill was known as Mount Gilbert, a name given to it by the Normans after a hermit who lived there.

Barber finds a cave where a hermit used to live and begins to live there.

In the extreme, a hermit defines his or her self as a complete rejection of social structures, but there is no “ hermit ” without a society from which to seek shelter.

Within the tidepool area there are also sea urchins, anemone, hermit crabs and numerous other mollusks.

He brought forward several instances where bones had been found in caves, and tried to show that the bones found at St Robert's Cave were probably those of some hermit who had taken up his abode there.

A hermit called Eletus ( or Elibertus ) had been there fore many years.

A ferry, operated by a hermit, was established there by 1235.

According to legend, the St Oswin appeared in a vision to Edmund, a novice, who was living there as a hermit.

Tradition also states that a buffalo led the Emperor Fasilides to a pool beside the Angereb, where an " old and venerable hermit " told the Emperor he would locate his capital there.

Since intact gastropod shells are not an unlimited resource, there is frequently strong competition for the available shells, with hermit crabs fighting over shells.

The earliest known record of the town is to be found in Reginald of Durham's Life of Godric where it is stated that the Saint lived there for almost two years about 1120 AD with Elric the hermit.

The example of king crabs ( family Lithodidae ) evolving from hermit crabs has been particularly well studied and, although some doubt this theory, there is considerable evidence in its favour.

The small grotto that exists there was once a shelter for a hermit.

The book is titled after the first essay, in which she realizes that a hermit crab she accidentally brought home while beachcombing still times its activity to the rise and fall of the tides, even in an aquarium in Tucson, Arizona where there are no oceans or tides for hundreds of miles.

In 1274, while traveling through L ' Aquila, a hermit from Morrone named Pietro, founder of the Celestine Order, spent the night on a nearby hill, the Colle di Maggio, and had a dream in which the Virgin Mary, surrounded by angels at the top of a golden stairway, asked him to build a church there in her honor.

A small chapel was founded at what was then the southernmost point of the peninsula-now a tidal island known as Chapel Rock-traditionally in the 4th century by Tecla, a princess of Gwynedd who retired there as a hermit before being murdered by raiders from the sea.

He lived there as a hermit with his disciple Sigobart.