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Also Known As self-denial • renunciation

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Milarepa
Tibetan Buddhist master
Simeon Stylites, Saint
St. Simeon Stylites
Christian monk
Foucauld, Charles Eugène, vicomte de
Charles Eugène, vicomte de Foucauld
French ascetic
Aloysius Gonzaga, Saint
St. Aloysius Gonzaga
Roman Catholic saint
Shariputra
disciple of the Buddha
St. Basil, detail of a mosaic, 12th century; in the Palatine Chapel, Palermo, Sicily, Italy.
St. Basil the Great
bishop of Caesarea
al-Muḥāsibī
Muslim theologian
Saint Nilus of Ancyra
Greek abbot
Mark The Hermit
Christian theologian
Palladius
Galatian monk, bishop, and chronicler
Arsenius the Great
Roman monk
Evagrius Ponticus
Christian mystic
Diadochus Of Photice
theologian
Augustine Baker
English monk
Seraphim of Sarov, Saint
Saint Seraphim of Sarov
Russian monk
Saint Nicodemus the Hagiorite
Greek monk
Rolle, detail from “Religious Poems,” early 15th century; in the British Library (Cotton Ms. Faustina B. VI)
Richard Rolle
British mystic
Saint John Climacus
Byzantine monk
John Moschus
Byzantine monk