Types of Penitents
- Married Conversi – continued to live with their family, but partially or fully abstained from conjugal relations.
- Voluntary Pilgrims – went on pilgrimages to the Holy Land or to more local shrines if that were not possible.
- Hermits – lived alone or with one or two companions in the wild, in grottos and caves or even in the hollows of trees.
- Religious Virgins – not nuns, lived with family
- Recluses – women who consecrated themselves to God without entering a religious institution
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