What Does “Hermitage” Mean in the Bible?
A remote place where a hermit lives alone, devoted to prayer.
It can mean
- The hermit: lives apart, in silence and solitude, with prayer and penance, to praise God and to pray for the world.
- In the Bible: Jesus went out very early in the morning to a deserted place and prayed there. At other times he spent the night praying on a mountain.
Where it appears in the Bible
Mark 1:35; Luke 6:12; Luke 5:16
What the Bible says
Mark 1:35
And rising very early, going out, he went into a desert place: and there he prayed.
Luke 6:12
And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and he passed the whole night in the prayer of God.
Luke 5:16
And he retired into the desert, and prayed.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: RAE, “eremitorio”; Catechism 920-921