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1 1|  because there were numerous hermits living in the open country
2 2|   mountains became abodes of hermits, and gradually of organized
3 2| spiritual supervision of the hermits, and secondly of the directing
4 2|     market-place , where the hermits sold their products, their
5 2|  received the same name. The hermits lived in numerous cells
6 2| degree of authority over the hermits. Further, the latter gathered
7 3|  survive to the present day. Hermits are to be found almost exclusively