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* The monk Bede ( c. 672 – 735 ) wrote in his influential treatise on computus, The Reckoning of Time, that the Earth was round (' not merely circular like a shield spread out like a wheel, but resembl more a ball '), explaining the unequal length of daylight from " the roundness of the Earth, for not without reason is it called ' the orb of the world ' on the pages of Holy Scripture and of ordinary literature.
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As the story would later be told by the Anglo-Saxon monk and historian Bede, Gregory was struck by the unusual appearance of the slaves and asked about their background.
Bede ( ; ; 672 / 673 – 26 May 735 ), also referred to as Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede (), was an English monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow ( see Monkwearmouth-Jarrow ), both in the Kingdom of Northumbria.
Bede does not say whether it was already intended at that point that he would be a monk.
Wilfrid did not respond to the accusation, but a monk present relayed the episode to Bede, who replied within a few days to the monk, writing a letter setting forth his defence and asking that the letter be read to Wilfrid also.
Bede also travelled to the monastery of Lindisfarne, and at some point visited the otherwise unknown monastery of a monk named, a visit that is mentioned in a letter to that monk.
His works were so influential that late in the 9th century Notker the Stammerer, a monk of the Monastery of St. Gall in Switzerland, wrote that " God, the orderer of natures, who raised the Sun from the East on the fourth day of Creation, in the sixth day of the world has made Bede rise from the West as a new Sun to illuminate the whole Earth ".
In his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, the eighth-century monk Bede lists Aethelberht as the third king to hold imperium over other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.
Sources for this period in Kentish history include The Ecclesiastical History of the English People, written in 731 by Bede, a Northumbrian monk.
Because Justus was probably not a monk ( he was not called that by Bede ), his cathedral clergy was very likely non-monastic too.
Northumberland's patron saint, Saint Cuthbert, was a monk and later Abbot of the monastery, and his miracles and life are recorded by the Venerable Bede.
The earliest mention of Ninian of Whithorn is in a short passage of The Ecclesiastical History of the English People by the Northumbrian monk Bede in ca.
* Bede the Venerable, English monk and scholar
* The Venerable Bede, English monk, writer and historian ( or 672 )
The eighth century monk and chronicler the Venerable Bede wrote a history of the English church called Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum ; the history only covers events up to 731, but as one of the major sources for Anglo-Saxon history it provides important background information for Offa's reign.
There is a significant amount of information known about Cuthbert thanks to two accounts of Cuthbert ’ s life that were written shortly after his death, the first by an anonymous monk from Lindisfarne, and the second by Bede, a famous monk, historian, and theologian.
The Rugini were only mentioned once, in a list of tribes still to be Christianised drawn up by the English monk Bede ( Beda venerabilis ) in his Historia ecclesiastica of the early 8th century.
The author of a continuation of Dionysius's Computus, writing in 616, described Dionysius as a " most learned abbot of the city of Rome ", and the Venerable Bede accorded him the honorific abbas, which could be applied to any monk, especially a senior and respected monk, and does not necessarily imply that Dionysius ever headed a monastery ; indeed, Dionysius's friend Cassiodorus stated in Institutiones that he was still only a monk late in life.
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Aimoin ( c. 960-c. 1010 ), French chronicler, was born at Villefranche-de-Longchat about 960, and in early life entered the monastery of Fleury, where he became a monk and passed the greater part of his life.
* The main source for Columbanus's life is recorded by Jonas of Bobbio, an Italian monk who entered the monastery in Bobbio in 618, three years after the saint's death ; Jonas wrote the life c. 643.
One heresy, Pelagianism, was originated by a British monk teaching in Rome: Pelagius lived c. 354 to c. 420 / 440.
# Fulk FitzRoy ( born c. 1092 ); a monk at Abingdon.
Saint John Climacus ( c. 7th Century AD ), also known as John of the Ladder, John Scholasticus and John Sinaites, was a 7th century Christian monk at the monastery on Mount Sinai.
The monk and historian Domenico Cavalca ( c. 1270-1342 ), citing Jerome, suggested that Mary Magdalene was betrothed to St John the Evangelist: " I like to think that the Magdalene was the spouse of John, not affirming it ...
Máel Coluim mac Domnaill ( anglicised Malcolm I ) ( c. 900 – 954 ) was king of Scots ( before 943 – 954 ), becoming king when his cousin Causantín mac Áeda abdicated to become a monk.
Paul the Deacon ( c. 720s – 13 April probably 799 ), also known as Paulus Diaconus, Warnefred, Barnefridus and Cassinensis, ( i. e. " of Monte Cassino "), was a Benedictine monk and historian of the Lombards.
* Paul the Deacon or Paulus Diaconus ( c. 720 – c. 799 ), Italian Benedictine monk
A Moscovite monk called Isidore used this technology to produce the first original Russian vodka c. 1430.
* Mesrop Mashtots, ( c. 361 – c. 440 ), Armenian monk, theologian and inventor of the Armenian alphabet
* 525: Having settled in Rome c. 500, Scythian monk Dionysius Exiguus invents the Anno Domini era calendar based on the estimated birth year of Jesus Christ.
* c. 401: Buddhist monk and translator of sutras, Kumarajiva into Chinese arrives in Chang ' an
** Petrus Thaborita, Dutch historian and monk ( b. c. 1450 )
It is not clear when the name changed, but by the time of the visit of the Chinese pilgrim monk, Xuanzang, c. 636 CE, it was known as Ayodhya.
Saint John of Damascus ( Greek: Ἰωάννης ὁ Δαμασκηνός Iōannēs ho Damaskēnos ; Latin: Iohannes Damascenus ; also known as John Damascene, Χρυσορρόας / Chrysorrhoas, " streaming with gold "— i. e., " the golden speaker ") ( c. 645 or 676 – 4 December 749 ; Arabic: يوحنا الدمشقي Yuḥannā Al Demashqi ) was a Syrian monk and priest.
* St. Cuthbert of Lindisfarne ( c. 634 – 687 ), Anglo-Saxon saint, bishop, monk and hermit
Saint Cuthbert ( c. 634 – 20 March 687 ) was an Anglo-Saxon monk, bishop and hermit, associated with the monasteries of Melrose and Lindisfarne in the Kingdom of Northumbria.
* Job of Pochayiv ( c. 1551-1651 ), Ukrainian Orthodox monk and Eastern Orthodox saint
François Rabelais (; c. 1494 – 9 April 1553 ) was a major French Renaissance writer, doctor, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar.
c. 1070-Ruodlieb ( IV 184-188 ) thought to be written by a monk near Tegernsee.
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The monk who opened the door immediately calmed his worries about his reception: `` I speak English '', the old man said, `` but I do not hear it very well ''.
Smiling at Warren's protestations, the old monk took his grip from him and led him down a corridor to a small parlor.
Musically and dramatically, Rangoni is as far removed from the conventional monk as Varlaam.
But actually these accounts reveal the supernatural powers that the masters were in fact supposed to possess, as well as the extreme degree of popular credulity: `` Hwang Pah ( O Baku ), one day going up Mount Tien Tai which was believed to have been inhabited by Arhats with supernatural powers, met with a monk whose eyes emitted strange light.
The monk then understood the spiritual attainment of Hwang Pah, and praised him as a true Mahayanist.
A second tale shows still more clearly the kind of powers a truly spiritual monk could possess: `` On one occasion Yang Shan ( Kyo-zan ) saw a stranger monk flying through the air.
Then the monk praised Yang Shan saying: `` I have come over to China in order to worship Manjucri, and met unexpectedly with Minor Shakya '', and after giving the master some palm leaves he brought from India, went back through the air.
To the Zen monk the universe is still populated with `` spiritual beings '' who have to be appeased.
In 1939 he met with Trappist monk Alexis Presse on a recommendation.
At first it was employed as a respectful title for any monk, but it was soon restricted by canon law to certain priestly superiors.
Examples among the Egyptian monks of this submission to the commands of the superiors, exalted into a virtue by those who regarded the entire crushing of the individual will as a goal, are detailed by Cassian and others, e. g. a monk watering a dry stick, day after day, for months, or endeavoring to remove a huge rock immensely exceeding his powers.
It was necessary that an abbot should be at least 25 years of age, of legitimate birth, a monk of the house, unless it furnished no suitable candidate, when a liberty was allowed of electing from another convent, well instructed himself, and able to instruct others, one also who had learned how to command by having practised obedience.
No monk might sit in his presence, or leave it without his permission, reflecting the hierarchical etiquette of families and society.
Two chiefly important monk philosophers were Sengzhao and Daosheng.
* 1709 – Hermann Anton Gelinek, German monk and musician ( d. 1779 )
Walafrid Strabo, a monk of the Abbey of St. Gall writing in the 9th century, remarked, in discussing the people of Switzerland and the surrounding regions, that only foreigners called them the Alemanni, but that they gave themselves the name of Suevi.
Aimoin's third work was the composition of books ii and iii of the Miracula sancti Benedicti, the first book of which was written by another monk of Fleury named Adrevald.
Aimoin, who died about 1010, must be distinguished from Aimoin, a monk of Saint-Germain-des-Pres, who wrote De miraculis sancti Germani, and a fragment De Normanorum gestis circa Parisiacam urbem et de divine in eos ultione tempore Caroli calvi.
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