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Updated: May 24, 2025
Clergy and laymen practiced various forms of self-denial without becoming actual monks. The hermit life, which was asceticism pushed to an external separation from the world. Here are to be found anchorites, and stylites or pillar-saints. Coenobitism, or monastic life proper, consisting of associations of monks under one roof, and ruled by an abbot.
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