1. He was Christendom’s first influential hermit, or eremite.

2. Synonyms for Anchorites include eremites, hermits, recluses, ascetics, isolates, solitary, cenobites, marabouts, santons and stylites

3. (Eremites, "inhabitants of a desert", from the Greek eremos), also called Anchorites, were men who fled the society of their fellow-men to dwell alone in retirement.

4. The large number of caves in the Latmos mountains provided refuge to ‘Cloisterers’ (recluses) and eremites (hermits), driven out of Sinai and Southern Arabia in the 7th century to search refuge in the Latmos mountains