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
Read more about this topic: Order Of Penitents
Famous quotes containing the words types of, types and/or penitents:
“Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other—only in certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly.”
—Talcott Parsons (1902–1979)
“The American man is a very simple and cheap mechanism. The American woman I find a complicated and expensive one. Contrasts of feminine types are possible. I am not absolutely sure that there is more than one American man.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“And this school wasn’t keeping anymore,
Unless for penitents who took their seat
Upon its doorsteps as at mercy’s feet
To make up for a lack of meditation.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)