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Oct 6, 2026
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It's believed it was once used to conduct pagan fertility rites.
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Then Christians came along and some of them were fond of worshipping God at the tops of pillars away from earthly temptations.
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They were called Stylites.
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After Christianity took a firm hold of Georgia around the 5th century, it was only a matter of time before the monks took their minimal belongings, packed them in the ancient U-Haul and moved in, eventually building their dream church.
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Yeah, not sure I could manage without all my earthly temptations, I'm afraid.
Philip Michael TangoraHOST
They're hermits that live in community.
Philip Michael TangoraHOST
So instead of like the Stylites in Egypt who would be on a pillar all by themselves, the herm- they were hermits, a community of hermits, and they would have common meals, they would have common liturgies.
Philip Michael TangoraHOST
But outside of that, they would live in their individual hermitages, sort of like Brother Elias, uh, who lives in the Bethlehem Hermitage in Chester in our diocese.
Philip Michael TangoraHOST
So the Carthusians are a eremitic religious institute, and as such, he was capable of following, putting his hand to the plow, and just giving himself completely over to the Lord and leaving all else behind.