2 adjectives to describe anchorites

The hermit began to talk to us in a very pious and edifying way, when another aged anchorite ran into the cave, and said, "It is all over; we're discovered.

Bayle, Magliabecchi of Florence, Isaac Reed, Sir Thomas Brown, Montaignethose were the men whose lot in life I enviedthose the literary anchorites in whose steps I would fain have followed.

2 adjectives to describe  anchorites