What is an English anchorite?
Consequently, what is an anchorite person? ναχωρητής, anachōrēt?s, "one who has retired from the world", from the verb ?ναχωρέω, anachōréō, signifying "to withdraw", "to retire") is someone who, for religious reasons, withdraws from secular society so as to be able to lead an intensely prayer-oriented, ascetic, or Eucharist-