Gyrovagues

Gyrovagues were wandering or itinerant monks without fixed residence or leadership, who relied on charity and the hospitality of others.

“But the fourth class of monks is that called Gyrovagues, who keep going their whole life long from one province to another, staying three or four days at a time in different cells as guests. Always roving and never settled, they indulge their passions and the cravings of their appetite, and are in every way worse than all other classes of monks. It is better to pass all these over in silence than to speak of their most wretched life.” –The Rule of St. Benedict