There's an interesting variant: older Christian denominations emphasize communion, which means you can go off into the wilderness ("the green martyrdom"), but there's also pressure to be close enough to a priest to celebrate Mass at some interval. This led to the buck-wild phenomenon of the anchoritic life, where you would get a tiny little prison cell built onto the side of a church with a little window in the church wall so you could take communion, and then... live there. Julian of Norwich is my favorite (everyone's favorite?) if you want to look anything up; people from the town would go talk to her at a window on the outside side and she'd give counsel and pray for people and such. https://julianofnorwich.org/pages/who-is-julian-of-norwich