Religious imprisonment consists of choosing to live for a longer or longer period (possibly even an entire life) in a "reclusory", or in a very limited space (usually a cell , sometimes walled with a reduced opening for the passage of food and air) without contact with other people, with the purpose of ascension and prayer. However, this space can be attached to a church so that the one who has chosen such a life-style can, by means of an additional window that opens into the interior of the church, attend the Mass and also communicate. This opening must be covered by a curtain so that the recluse can not be seen from the outside of the cell. The imprisonment may also, as the case may be, provide for manual or intellectual activity to be carried within the cell, the work of which can be sold or possibly sold outwardly, with their transfer always through the main opening ( of the one). There are cases where the student has been trained and his contacts with them are, in this case, always and only through the aforementioned opening.
In the first centuries the cells were not heated, but in the 13th and 14th centuries the rules were gradually mitigated, and recruits were also warmed up. In the early days each convent also included a reclusory (intended as one or more cells for imprisonment). The recruits also had to be furnished spartan to conform to the ideal of ascesa.
Numerous saints and saints chose this discipline, though not for the rest of their lives, for example: Santa Verena, Holy Viborada, Holy Ida of Fischingen, Saint Fimano and Saint Simeon of Siracusa Voices correlateemodify wikitesto Links externalize the wikitesto
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