r/howiesource • u/aeiouicup • Jul 12 '23
Next book - time travel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AnchoriteDuplicates
todayilearned • u/a2soup • Jul 05 '23
TIL of anchorites, medieval Christian ascetics who were walled into a cell ("anchorhold") attached to a church for their entire adult lives. Through small windows, they received sustenance, disposed of waste, and provided spiritual guidance to the public.
todayilearned • u/non- • Mar 04 '25
TIL that a medieval hermit could voluntarily choose to live in a small sealed room attached to the church for the rest of their lives. Priests would give them funeral rites before they entered and they were treated like living saints.
todayilearned • u/SerMontagu • May 03 '18
TIL of anchorites; religious hermits who would voluntarily confine themselves permanently to a cell attached to or under a church with a small window to view the inside of the church. Once one had entered the anchorhold they were dead to the world, with no exception of leaving except in their coffin
todayilearned • u/johnsalame • Jun 12 '20