1,500-year-old skeleton found in chains in Jerusalem was a female 'extreme ascetic'

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1,500-year-old skeleton found in chains in Jerusalem was a female 'extreme ascetic' (www.livescience.com)

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Aren't they called anchorites? Crazies that hole themselves up for religious ecstacy.

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