hermitage

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The manuscript opens with the life of Giovanni of Florence, who built the Augustinian hermitage of Santa Lucia in Larniano with help from local farmers.

From Science Daily • Feb. 2, 2026

Unless somebody at Google HQ has just made a fix, Google Maps will tell you incorrectly that the hermitage and lodge are beyond the road closure.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2025

The hermitage was his summer hideaway, a place for monthslong vacations with family and friends.

From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2024

The south peak of Sceilg Mhichíl is 218m high and was used as a hermitage by monks, with the 183m-high lower peak containing the main monastic site.

From BBC • Aug. 13, 2022

For it was in this pool that the Hermit looked when he wanted to know what was going on in the world outside the green walls of his hermitage.

From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis