Exemplified by such people as Simeon, who to avoid people seeking his prayers spent his time sitting on a pillar, as well as Julian of Norwich and St. Anthony, for 10 points, identify these people sometimes called "anchorites," who engage in religious contemplation by isolating themselves from the world.
The sayings of one group of these people were gathered into a collection around 450 C.E. under the name Apophthegma Patrum. In Islamic tradition, these people lived in dwellings called rabitah, and al-Arabi gives an example of one of these people named Abu Yahya al-Sunhaji. Sulpicius Severus wrote a noted biography of one of these people, Martin of Tours, who was instrumental in expanding the numbers of these people in Gaul in the 4th century C.E., while a noted British member of this group wrote a book called (*) Revelations of Divine Love. Basil of Caesarea led one of the few reactions against these people in Eastern Christianity, where they are most prominent, and most early Christian examples of these people were named after tax evaders. Exemplified by such people as Simeon, who to avoid people seeking his prayers spent his time sitting on a pillar, as well as Julian of Norwich and St. Anthony, for 10 points, identify these people sometimes called "anchorites," who engage in religious contemplation by isolating themselves from the world.
The sayings of one group of these people were gathered into a collection around 450 C.E. under the name Apophthegma Patrum.
eremites or hermits [or anchorites before it is read; prompt on "Christians" before "Islamic", do not accept "monks" or other wrong answers]