Tag Archives: the anchorites

from tree to cave to pillar

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Dave

All these people of course were not completely isolated from society, but various texts seem to confirm that those times were generously filled with ascetic extremists. Anchorites in caves, Stylites living in pillars of ruined temples and Dendrites chaining themselves … Continue reading →

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rocks of ages and sages

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Dave

The rock monasteries of Cappadocia. In the days of Byzantium, monks turned weird rock cones into a city of cells and churches. It was part of central Turkey and a volcano buried the country-side for forty square miles in a … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Ahmet Ertug, Buckle Church Cappadocia, Cappadocia churches, Cappadocia Monasteries, Church of the Serpent Cappadocia, Julian the Apostate, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Monasticism history, Saint Gregory of Nanzianus, Saint Jerome, Saint Jerome Vulgate, the anchorites, The Dark Church Cappadocia, the Dendrites, the stylites, the Thebaid | Leave a comment

desert getaway

Posted on July 2, 2011 by Dave

The Thebaid, a fourteenth-century painting attributed to Gherardo Starnina depicts the Egyptian desert around Thebes as teeming with anchorites. The body of Saint Paul, the first Christian hermit and a contemporary of Saint Anthony , is shown in repose at … Continue reading →