Women hermits

Italian Dominican saint (1347-1380)

Egyptian hermit and female Christian saint

Italian saint of Palermo, honored for divine intermediation during the plague there

British Catholic nun and presenter of documentaries for the BBC on the history of art (1930-2018)

Byzantine courtier; the wife of a consul and a lady-in-waiting to the Byzantine empress Theodora; Christian saint

15th c. French abbess: founded Colettine Poor Clares

Hermitess and visionary

5th-century Egyptian Eastern Orthodox saint

Serbian Dominican visionary and anchoress from Montenegro (1493-1565)

12th-century Christian saint

early Christian ascetics, 3rd–5th centuries AD

American poet and activist (1942-2010)

sole resident of Ro island, Greece, 1893-1982

Siberian isolate, Russian Old Believer, part of the Lykov family, who has lived alone in the Taiga for most of her life.

Benedictine nun

Spanish farmer and saint

5th century hermit

German noblewoman, mystic and saint

Saint of the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church

Dutch poet and hermit (1427–1514)

Roman saint died in 405 or 406

Medieval Spanish anchoress

Saint Ermelinde (born c. 546 in Lovenjoel, died 594 in Meldert, Hoegaarden), is a Brabant Saint of the 6th century. Her feast day is October 29.

Nun and hermitess

Edigna (–1109) is a venerated figure in Puch, and is beatified in the Catholic Church. Her historical existence is debated.