For what it's worth, anchorites would wall themselves into a small room -- the folks who lived atop a pillar were called stylites. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

For what it's worth, anchorites would wall themselves into a small room -- the folks who lived atop a pillar were called stylites. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylites http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylites