You don't have to believe that legend, but Henry Plantagenet, later Henry II of England, husband of Eleanor of Aquitaine and the father of Lionhearted, did, and he came here to pray to the Black Madonna that still looks down on those who come to the little chapel by the tomb where the hermit's body was found.
Naive as he is about finding fish, he writes well about the Russians he meets, from his friend Yuri Brodsky who has spent 25 years cataloguing the history of the first Soviet gulag on the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea to Fyodorovich, a trapper, who survived the camps in Siberia and stayed on to live like a hermit in the boundless far eastern taiga.
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Celestine V, a hermit who founded the religious order that bears his name, was later canonized.
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On Tuesday, police said they found the site where the so-called North Pond Hermit was said to have lived for 27 years with virtually no human contact.
Hermit crabs are all over the atypical black sand beaches, where the sand is so dark it exudes an ominous and divinely desolate quality.
These hermit crabs strike fear into the hearts of seated airline passengers whenever they board, because their shells invariably bang into innocent shins all the way to their seat.
Veronica died, Zaccheus became a hermit in these cliffs Roc Amator, the lover of the rock.
My direct interactions with Steve Jobs decreased during the decade that I was for all practical purposes a hermit working on A New Kind of Science.
The high-profile trial, and its lurid testimony, drove Jackson further down the path of antisocial behavior, turning him into a hermit almost on par with famed billionaire Howard Hughes.
Ultimately, any threat to hermit crabs could also endanger their ecosystem, since the scavengers play several key ecological roles.
One local hermit, Pietro del Morrone, was even elected as the head of the Catholic Church in 1294.
Celestine V, a hermit elected at age of 80, stepped down at the end of the 13th century because he felt exhausted by the office.
This seems at odds with her artistic and slightly hermit-like character until you realize that her reproductions allow her to keep the originals in her studio.
With the advent of the Internet and e-commerce, it's now possible to be a complete hermit and still shop 'til you drop (your mouse, that is).
In a pinch, wild hermit crabs will take whatever they can get, says Rafael Lemaitre, a research zoologist at the Smithsonian Institution.
Back on shore, the two-room Maria Mitchell Aquarium might be overlooked unless your kids are excited to see local fish and touch hermit crabs.
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