1) Eremites 1) Hair shirt wearers 2) Monks, often 3) Religious self-deniers 4) Self-denying sorts 5) They make do without 
Ascetics was a name given in ancient times to those Christians who devoted themselves to severe exercises of piety and strove to distinguish themselves from the world by abstinence from sensual enjoyments and by voluntary penances. Ascetics and asceticism have played an important part in the Christian church, but the principle of striving after a h...