Possible Clues:

• Person who practises self-denial as spiritual discipline
• Strictly self-denying
• Religiously self-disciplined, like Anglican jerk
• Puritanical when church gets endless credit
• Does counsel quote this back for self-denial?
• Austere disciple
• One who leads a Spartan lifestyle
• Sort of acid about the South, pure and simple
• Hedonist's opposite
• Name Child Support Agency for backing hermit