Anchoret
Anchoret ({not transcribed}) , noun
[French anachorète, Latin anachoreta, from Greek {not transcribed}, from {not transcribed} to go back, retire; {not transcribed} + {not transcribed} to give place, retire, {not transcribed} place; perh. akin to Sanskrit hā to leave. Compare Anchor a hermit.]
One who renounces the world and secludes himself, usually for religious reasons; a hermit; a recluse.
Our Savior himself... did not choose an anchorite's or a monastic life, but a social and affable way of conversing with mortals.
Also: Anchorite