Sunday, June 8, 2008

Hermit of Cat Island's "LItany of the Hermits"


Fra Jerome Hawes wrote and recited nightly, this Litany of the Hermits.

St. Mary, Queen of Hermits, pray for us
St. Mary of Mount Carmel...
All ye holy hermits and solitaries...
St. John the Baptist, "Prince of Hermits"...
St. Mary Magdalene...
St. Paul the first hermit...
St. Anthony...
St. Mary of Egypt...
St. Jerome...
St. Martin...
St. Romuald...
St. Celestine...
Holy Father St. Francis...
All ye holy Franciscan hermits and solitaries...
Brother John of Alvernia...
Brother Giles...
St. Clare...
Bl. John of Parma...
Bl Paolo Giustiniano...
St. Bruno...
St. Benedict Joseph Labre...
St. Cuthbert...
St. Godric of Finchale...
St. Neot...
St. Roman...
Stl Guthlac of Crowland...
St. Petroc...
Bl. Richard Rolle...
Bl. Juliana of Norwich...
Bl. Charles de Foucauld...
Holy Hermits of Tintagel...


From The Hermit of Cat Island: The Life of Fra Jerome Hawes, by Peter F. Anson. 1957. New York: P.J. Kenedy & Sons, p. 274.

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