In the Germanic lands from at least the tenth century it was customary for the bishop to say the office of the dead as the anchorite entered her cell, to signify the anchorite's death to the world and rebirth to a spiritual life of solitary communion with God and the angels.

Of these a few of note are: Jiat Kunda ( well possessing life giving power ), Mankalir Dhap ( place consecrated to Mankali ), Parasuramer Basgriha ( palace of a king named Parasuram ), Bairagir Bhita ( palace of a female anchorite ), Khodar Pathar Bhita ( place of stone bestowed by God ), and Munir Ghon ( a bastion ).

The earliest known Christian monastic communities ( see Monasticism ) consisted of groups of cells or huts collected about a common center, which was usually the house of some hermit or anchorite famous for holiness or singular asceticism, but without any attempt at orderly arrangement.

He became an anchorite before being elected abbot of Bath Abbey.

He first entered the monastery of Deerhurst, but then moved to Bath, where he became an anchorite.

This was the beginning of the monastic movement, which was organized by Anthony the Great, Saint Paul, the world's first anchorite, Saint Macarius the Great and Saint Pachomius the Cenobite in the 4th century.

In Egypt, the terms more often used are anchoretism ( Gr., " withdrawal, retreat "), and anchorite ( Gr., " one who withdraws or retreats, i. e. a hermit ").

The laws ( novellae ) of the Emperor Justinian I ( r. 527 – 565 ) treat Hesychast and anchorite as synonyms, making them interchangeable terms.

Even when he is depicted as a half-clad anchorite, with cross, skull and Bible for the only furniture of his cell, the red hat or some other indication of his rank as cardinal is as a rule introduced somewhere in the picture.

* Saint Hilarion, anchorite and saint ( d. 371 )

* Hilarion, anchorite and saint ( b. 291 )

The great communal life of a Christian monastery is called cenobitic, as opposed to the anchoretic ( or anchoritic ) life of an anchorite and the eremitic life of a hermit.

The Liber Pontificalis mentions that he had been an anchorite ( or hermit ) monk prior to assuming office.

* Cyriacus of Athens, Greek anchorite and saint ( d. 557 )

Eadfrith, Bishop of Lindisfarne, was credited with writing the manuscript, Ethelwald, Bishop of the Lindisfarne islanders was credited with binding it, Billifrith, an anchorite, was credited with ornamenting the manuscript, and finally Aldred includes himself as the person who glossed it in Anglo-Saxon English.

Gunn used a Vatican palace ms. 1964, which is a copy that ascribes the work to Mark the anchorite.

On becoming a tonsured monk, he adopted the name of an old Egyptian anchorite Bessarion, whose story he has related.

* Humility-A bible study on anchorite. org

The term " anchorite " ( from the Greek anachōreō, signifying " to withdraw ", " to depart into the country outside the circumvallate city ") is often used as a synonym for hermit, not only in the earliest written sources but throughout the centuries.

In the Middle Ages anchorite was a common vocation.

The door of anchorages tended to be bricked up in a special ceremony conducted by the local bishop after the anchorite had moved in.

" In addition, " whereas Hollywood filmmakers strove to conceal the constructed nature of their work so that the realistic narrative was wholly dominant, Indian filmmakers made no attempt to conceal the fact that what was shown on the screen was a creation, an illusion, a fiction.

The last name " Singh " is in fact used by a wider population from Bihar Jharkhand Punjab to Uttar Pradesh and from Kashmir down into Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Maharastra to Uttarakhand as well as the far eastern states of Manipur, Assam, Tripura, Sikkim, and even Bhutan, spanning the entire subcontinent and even reaching Southeast Asia, where in Thailand, as the Chakri Dynasty strove to empower Siam after the fall of the Ayutthaya Kingdom, Singh Singhaseni ( 1777 – 1849 ) was a prominent general, and Chao (" Lord ") Racha Wong Singh governed Yasothon, 1815 – 1823.

And in spite of the fact that Capote believed in the objective accuracy of In Cold Blood and strove to keep himself totally out of the narrative, one reviewer found in the book the " tendency among writers to resort to subjective sociology, on the other hand, or to super-creative reportage, on the other.

Both cities strove for more autonomy, aspiring to become Free Imperial Cities, so they welcomed the neutrality imposed by the peace negotiations, and the prohibition of all political influence by the warring parties including their overlords, the prince-bishops.

Author Walter Pater was a large influence on her life during this time as she strove to be like him and live a well-lived life.

He strove to achieve greater autonomy from the influence of Great Britain, as embodied principally in the acquiescent behavior of the Regent, Abdul Ilah and occasionally of his friend Nuri Al Said, and once resigned as Finance Minister in Nuri Pasha's cabinet in protest at a treaty of cooperation with Great Britain to which Nuri agreed.

After the war he renewed his reforming efforts, and during the years 1646-1647 strove to withdraw his governorship from the benumbing influence of the central administration at Copenhagen, and succeeded with the help of Christian IV in creating a separate defensive fleet for Norway and giving her partial control of her own finances.

Under the impetus of monastic reform movements and the efforts of some Holy Roman Emperors, a group of cardinals and a series of successive popes strove to cleanse the church of abuses and free the papacy from its Imperial patronage, which had recently freed it from the influence of the Roman nobles.

His term as Governor of Distrito Federal was marked by strong tensions with the Workers ’ Party ( PT ), and particularly with the unionist base of the party, as he strove continuously not only to maintain his independence from party directives, but also to influence intra-party political struggle through State power.

By the middle of the century, an attempt to be objective was made in poetry by the group of writers known as the Parnassians -- which included Leconte de Lisle, Théodore de Banville, Catulle Mendès, Sully-Prudhomme, François Coppée, José María de Heredia and ( early in his career ) Paul Verlaine -- who ( using Théophile Gautier's notion of art for art's sake and the pursuit of the beautiful ) strove for exact and faultless workmanship, and selected exotic and classical subjects which they treated with a rigidity of form and an emotional detachment ( elements of which echo the philosophical work of Arthur Schopenhauer whose aesthetic theories would also have an influence on the symbolists ).

Still, Kirkland strove to make the episode look as realistic as possible by drawing influence from his experience in Kenya.

An attempt to be objective was made in poetry by the group of writers known as the Parnassians — which included Leconte de Lisle, Théodore de Banville, Catulle Mendès, Sully-Prudhomme, François Coppée, José María de Heredia and ( early in his career ) Paul Verlaine — who ( using Théophile Gautier's notion of art for art's sake and the pursuit of the beautiful ) strove for exact and faultless workmanship, and selected exotic and classical subjects which they treated with a rigidity of form and an emotional detachment ( elements of which echo the philosophical work of Arthur Schopenhauer whose aesthetic theories would also have an influence on the symbolists ).

The forest had become an alien world where she strove, alone, unprotected, unguided, to deal with whatever hindrances were offered.

`` I scanned the world through printed symbol swart, And through the beggar's rags I strove to see The inner man.

For in these was reflected that which a personality must feel concerning the evolution and essential being of humanity when this personality is kept back from grasping the spiritual world by the restricted thought in the philosophy of nature characterizing the end of the 19th century .... What attracted me particularly was that one could read Nietzsche without coming upon anything which strove to make the reader a ' dependent ' of Nietzsche's.

When T ' Challa became king of Wakanda, he strove to end his country's isolation from the rest of the world.

He strove to bring an end to the isolation of the Jews so that they would be able to embrace the culture of the Western world, and in turn be embraced by gentiles as equals.

Forty-two years ago, Nazi Germany, which strove for supremacy over the whole world, attacked our country, burned and destroyed many thousands of our towns and villages, killed millions of Soviet men, women and children.

Working within a Marxist ideology, Vertov strove to create a futuristic city that would serve as a commentary on existing ideals in the Soviet world.

Churchill delivered a tribute to him in which he said, " Whatever else history may or may not say about these terrible, tremendous years, we can be sure that Neville Chamberlain acted with perfect sincerity according to his lights and strove to the utmost of his capacity and authority, which were powerful, to save the world from the awful, devastating struggle in which we are now engaged.

The Pennsylvania Railroad, as the " standard railroad of the world ", also strove for an air of permanence, decorating its railroad stations with symbols of itself such as the Pennsylvania Herald, shown above at Newark Penn Station.

Burma generally strove to be impartial in world affairs and was one of the first countries in the world to recognize Israel and the People's Republic of China.

But it came to pass that these sons strove for mastery with their father Yaldabaoth, whereat he suffered great affliction, and casting his despairing gaze on the dregs of matter below, he, through them, consolidated his longing and obtained a son Ophiomorphus, the serpent-formed Nous, whence come the spirit and soul, and all things of this lower world ; but whence came also oblivion, wickedness, jealousy, envy, and death.

In its first years, the team strove to beat the Original Celtics, the dominant white team of the time, and claim the title of world champions: in their fifth encounter, the Rens did so for the first time, on December 20, 1925.

In the ' 80s, MRR was one of the very few US fanzines that insisted on the international scope of the punk movement, and strove to cover scenes around the world.

For example sugar was produced both in Brazil and in the British colonies of the West Indies ; the British strove to ensure that the Brazilians would gain no advantage in the world markets by using slaves.

As Tolkien strove to create a world that would be as authentic as ours, he realized that for that to be possible, he must invent accompanying scripts for his languages.

Looking back at the period where he was dubbed the best rugby league player in the world, Hanley remembers that " It was something I always strove for.

) The ideal which Gandhi strove to put into practice in his ashrams was, he hoped, one that he could persuade the whole of India to embrace, becoming a light to the other nations of the world.

It was aided by the Islamic Republic of Iran which, in the wake of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, strove not only to help Lebanon's Shi ' a, but to export the PanIslamic revolution to the rest of the Muslim world, something Musawi strongly supported, saying, " We are her the Islamic Republic's children.

For many years during the second half of the twentieth century it was frequently in the news, not only due to the politically-sensitive part of the world in which it had mining businesses, but also – as it strove to become a conglomerate not wholly dependent on these businesses – in a number of takeover battles, most notably for the Harrods of Knightsbridge department store.

Adherents to the ideals of miyabi strove to rid the world of crude forms or aesthetics and emotions that were common in artworks of the period, such as those contained in the Man ' yōshū, the oldest extant collection of Japanese poetry.

The Soviet Union, the country with the largest armoured fleet in the world, strove to incorporate some anti-tank capability into almost every infantry weapon, and in the 1960s designed and deployed portable anti-tank guided missiles.

The group was constantly influenced by what they saw in the world around them and strove to display these images by utilizing the techniques of realism and naturalism ; they had a passion to depict things as they actually are.

He played a key role in securing legal counsel for the core group of detainees arrested in the emergency crackdown, and, together with Pio Gama Pinto, strove to make the world aware of the brutal nature of British imperial rule, through Indian newspapers such as the Chronicle.