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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/non- on 2025-03-04 19:17:37+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that a medieval hermit could voluntarily choose to live in a small sealed room attached to the church for the rest of their lives. Priests would give them funeral rites before they entered and they were treated like living saints.