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Updated: June 15, 2025
The heart of the Athenian Prince was distracted by two most powerful of passions Love and Jealousy and when the Eremite, pointing out to his guest his allotted resting-place, himself retired to his regular and simple slumbers, Nicæus quitted the cavern, and standing upon the bank of the river, gazed in abstraction upon the rushing waters foaming in the moonlight.
"Eat, gentle youth," said the Eremite. "Will not thy brother join us? What may be his name?" "Nicæus, holy father." "And thine?" Iduna blushed and hesitated. At length, in her confusion, she replied, "Iskander." "Nicæus," called out the Eremite, "Iskander and myself await thee!" Iduna trembled.
She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that the eremite having ended his verse, rose and coming up to Uns al-Wujud embraced him, and they wept together, till the hills rang with their cries and they fell down fainting.
For the Church of S. Gallo, without the Gate of the same name, and formerly a seat of the Eremite Friars of S. Augustine, he painted an altar-piece with the Madonna and two children, S. Zanobi, Bishop of Florence, and S. Francis. This altar-piece, which was in the Chapel of the Girolami, to which family that S. Zanobi belonged, is now in S. Jacopo tra Fossi at Florence.
To this desolate spot, called, from the name of its once celebrated eremite, St. Robert's Cave, the crowd now swept, increasing its numbers as it advanced.
As it was evident that the Eremite, from her apparel, mistook the sex of Iduna, Nicæus thought fit not to undeceive him, but passed her off as his brother.
Whereupon the Eremite himself, fetching a load of fresh rushes, arranged them in one of the cells, and invited the fair Iduna to repose.
In the Brahmanic scheme the highest sanctity and the most brilliant prospects attached to the man who forsook the life of men and devoted himself to solitary meditation in the forest. The seclusion was individual the man was an eremite. The organization into communities was made by Buddha and, apparently contemporaneously, by Mahavira, the founder of Jainism.
Around the cell of some eremite like Anthony, who fixed his retreat on Mount Colzim, a number of humble imitators gathered, emulous of his austerities and of his piety. A similar sentiment impels them to observe stated hours of prayer. Necessity for supporting the body indicates some pursuit of idle industry, the plaiting of mats or making of baskets.
To the Infidels?" "To the Infidels, gentle pilgrim." "Have you been at Adrianople?" "My oppressors were not the Paynim," replied the Eremite, "but they were enemies far more dire, my own evil passions. Time was when my eye sparkled like thine, gentle pilgrim, and my heart was not as pure." "God is merciful," said Iduna, "and without His aid, the strongest are but shadows."
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