On the other hand, one might posit a poem which is composed by a literate scribe, who acquired literacy by way of learning Latin ( and absorbing Latinate culture and ways of thinking ), probably a monk and therefore profoundly Christian in outlook.

* Christian of Oliva, a 13th-century Cistercian monk

The CE / BCE designation uses the year-numbering system introduced by the 6th-century Christian monk Dionysius Exiguus, who started the Anno Domini designation, intending the beginning of the life of Jesus to be the reference date.

* Elder Cyril Pavlov ( b. 1919 ), Russian Orthodox Christian monk, mystic and wonder-worker

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.

When Paul the Deacon wrote the Historia between 787 and 796 he was a Catholic monk and devoted Christian.

The Christian monk embraces the monastic life as a vocation for God.

* Jerome, Christian priest, monk, and translator of the Bible into Latin

* 782: Buddhist monk Prajna reaches Chang ' an and enlists the help of Christian bishop Ching Ching ( Adam ) in translating sutras into Chinese.

* John of Damascus, Syrian Christian monk, scholar

* John Cassian, Christian monk and theologian

* Moses the Black, Christian monk and priest ( b. 330 )

* John Climacus, Christian monk at the monastery on Mount Sinai

* Maron, Syriac Christian monk

In 525 ( the consulship of Probus Junior Flavius Probus ), a Christian monk named Dionysius Exiguus stated that the incarnation of Jesus occurred 525 years earlier.

* Moses the Black, Christian monk and priest ( d. 405 )

* Sabbas the Sanctified, Christian monk and saint ( d. 532 )

This date is usually given as the date of the martyrdom of Saint Telemachus, a Christian monk who was stoned by the crowd for trying to stop a gladiators ' fight in a Roman amphitheatre.

* January 1 – Telemachus, Christian monk and martyr

* Evagrius Ponticus, Christian monk and ascetic ( b. 345 )

* May 30 – Isaac of Dalmatia, Christian monk and saint

* Macarius of Egypt, Christian monk and hermit

* Abraham of Kratia, Christian monk and saint ( approximate date )

* Dorotheus of Gaza, Christian monk and abbot ( approximate date )

Reggio spent fourteen years in fasting, silence and prayer, training to be a monk within the Congregation of Christian Brothers, a Roman Catholic pontifical order, before abandoning that path and making the films.

First of all, it is now known that Pope John sees the renewal and purification of the Church as an absolutely necessary step toward Christian unity.

He is well known for having given a series of lectures in which he championed a pure form of Christian doctrine and chastised his audience about their laxity.

The earliest known Christian monastic communities ( see Monasticism ) consisted of groups of cells or huts collected about a common center, which was usually the house of some hermit or anchorite famous for holiness or singular asceticism, but without any attempt at orderly arrangement.

Stephen, one of the first deacons, is arrested for blasphemy, and after a trial, is found guilty and executed by stoning by the Jews, thereby becoming the first known Christian martyr.

It was known as Asuristan during this period, and became a main centre of the Church of the East ( now the Assyrian Church of the East ), with a flourishing Syriac ( Assyrian ) Christian culture which exists there to this day.

Some sources record that the final blow, with the back of an axe, was delivered as an act of kindness by a Christian convert known as " Thrum.

The earliest known Christian image of an angel, in the Cubicolo dell ' Annunziazione in the Catacomb of Priscilla, which is dated to the middle of the third century, is without wings.

Although no longer Christian, Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica, also known as E. G. C., recognizes apostolic succession as a major spiritual tenet.

* 1941 – World War II: The Communist Party of Slovenia, the Slovene Christian Socialists, the left-wing Slovene Sokols ( also known as " National Democrats ") and a group of progressive intellectuals establish the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People.

Present-day Christian religious bodies known for conducting their worship services without musical accompaniment include some Presbyterian churches devoted to the regulative principle of worship, Old Regular Baptists, Primitive Baptists, Plymouth Brethren, Churches of Christ, the Old German Baptist Brethren, the Eastern Orthodox Christian Church and the Amish, Old Order Mennonites and Conservative Mennonites.

The Christian scriptures contain the first known depiction of Abaddon as an individual entity instead of a place.

Though not well known among philosophers, his philosophical work was taken up by Owen Barfield ( and through him influenced the Inklings, an Oxford group of Christian writers that included J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis ) and Richard Tarnas.

Out of their co-operative endeavor, the Movement for Religious Renewal, now generally known as The Christian Community, was born.

* Affinity ( Christian organisation ), formerly known as the British Evangelical Council

Amy Lee Grant ( born November 25, 1960 ) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, media personality and actress, best known for her Christian music.

251 – 356 ), also known as Saint Anthony, Anthony of Egypt, Anthony the Abbot, Anthony of the Desert, Anthony the Anchorite, Anthony of Thebes, Abba Antonius ( Ἀββᾶς Ἀντώνιος ), and Father of All Monks, was a Christian saint from Egypt, a prominent leader among the Desert Fathers.

The Latin translation helped the Life become one of the best known works of literature in the Christian world, a status it would hold through the Middle Ages.

Thus in the spring of 1912, consultations between the various Christian Balkan nations resulted in a network of military alliances which became known as the Balkan League.

The combined book Ezra-Nehemiah of the earliest Christian and Jewish period was known as Ezra and was probably attributed to him ; according to a rabbinic tradition, however, Nehemiah was the real author but was forbidden to claim authorship because of his bad habit of disparaging others.

The Book of Revelation, often simply known as Revelation or by a number of variants expanding upon its authorship or subject matter, is the final book of the New Testament and occupies a central part in Christian eschatology.

Readings, chantings, and choral settings, of the book of Lamentations, are used in the Christian religious service known as the Tenebrae ( Latin for darkness ).

Birka was also important as the site of the first known Christian congregation in Sweden, founded in 831 by Saint Ansgar.

BJU's athletic teams compete in Division I of the National Christian College Athletic Association ( NCCAA ) and are collectively known as the Bruins.

Adherents of the Christian faith are known as Christians.