He had come to believe that the full Christian life should be lived in community rather than by solitary anchorites. (religion-online.org)
Unlike the Cistercians and somewhat after the manner of the early anchorites in Egypt, they adopted a semi-solitary rule. (religion-online.org)
An unidentified and presumably modern - day narrator can only hint at Arsenius the Great as namesake, though this is mostly conjecture grounded in Arseny's and the anchorite's shared penchant for silence. (firstthings.com)