The fame of the miracle went abroad into all lands.

From every land came monks to join; they came even as the fishes come, in shoals; and the monastery added building to building, and yet others to these, and so spread wide its arms and took them in.

And nuns came, also; and more again, and yet more; and built over against the monastery on the yon side of the vale, and added building to building, until mighty was that nunnery.
And these were friendly unto those, and they joined their loving labors together, and together they built a fair great foundling asylum midway of the valley between." "You spoke of some hermits, Sandy." "These have gathered there from the ends of the earth.

A hermit thriveth best where there be multitudes of pilgrims.

Ye shall not find no hermit of no sort wanting.