Sometime between 1763 and 1764 Salieri suffered the death of both parents and was briefly taken in by an anonymous brother, a monk in Padua, and then for unknown reasons in 1765 or 1766 he became the ward of a Venetian nobleman named Giovanni Mocenigo ( which Giovanni is at this time unknown ), a member of the powerful and well connected Mocenigo family.

The 12th century German monk Theophilus described how preheated crucibles were one sixth filled with powdered calamine and charcoal then topped up with copper and charcoal before being melted, stirred then filled again.

If there is only one boy found, the High Lamas will invite Living Buddhas of the three great monasteries together with secular clergy and monk officials, to confirm their findings and will then report to the Central Government through the Minister of Tibet.

A stele erected by Shaolin abbot Wenzai in 1517 shows the deity's vajra-club had by then been changed to a Chinese staff, which originally " served as the emblem of the monk ".

Wallace was transported to London, lodged in the house of William de Leyre, then taken to Westminster Hall, where he was tried for treason and for atrocities against civilians in war, " sparing neither age nor sex, monk nor nun.

St. Magnus was a Gallo-Roman senator who became a monk and then bishop of the city.

* July 2 – Martin Luther, then 22, vows to become a monk in a moment of terror, due to a near lightning strike during a thunderstorm, near the village of Stotternheim.

In 999, Otto made a pilgrimage from Gargano to Benevento, where he met with the hermit monk Romuald and the Abbot Nilus the Younger ( then a highly venerated religious figure ) in order to atone for having executed Crescentius II after promising his safety.

The Studite situation mirrored a general trend, with a number of bishops and abbots at first willing to reach a compromise with the iconoclasts, but then in the years between 816 and 819 renouncing the iconoclast position, a movement that was perhaps motivated by the martyrdom of the Studite monk Thaddaios.

It is then revealed that the monk also looked like Plug and claimed that the entire class needed a makeover ' accept Plug, of course '.

The founder of Shingon Buddhism was Kukai, a Japanese monk who studied in China in the 9th century during the Tang Dynasty and brought back Vajrayana scriptures, techniques and mandalas then popular in China.

He then became a monk after he became blind.

* Robert " of the Chamber " Breakspear ( d. 1110 ), priest of the diocese of Bath, then monk at St Albans ; father of Nicholas who became the only English Pope, Pope Adrian IV.

Larry then meets a Benedictine monk named Father Ensheim in Bonn, Germany while Father Ensheim is on leave from his monastery doing academic research.

He says Maelgwn held a regional pre-eminence among the other 4 kings, going on to say that he overthrew his maternal uncle () to gain the throne ; that he had taken up life as a monk but then returned to the secular world ; that he had been married and divorced, then remarried to the widow of his nephew after being responsible for his nephew's death ; and that he was tall.

According to his Life of King Alfred, Asser was a monk at St David's in what was then the kingdom of Dyfed, in southwest Wales.

In about 701 a monk named Guthlac came to what was then an island in the Fens to live the life of a hermit.

* Vita sancti Leodegarii, by Ursinus, then a monk of St Maixent ( Migne, Patrologia Latina, vol.

Æthelnoth became a monk at Glastonbury, then was made dean of the monastery of Christ Church Priory, at Canterbury, the cathedral chapter for the diocese of Canterbury.

After learning shugendō ( mountaineering asceticism ) from his father Dōyu, Ryushin then went to Kyoto where he learned esoteric Buddhism from the Buddhist monk Jōkai at Sanmaku-in temple.

The Poem of the Man God by Maria Valtorta was forbidden by the Holy Office under Pope John XXIII in 1959, a condemnation upheld in Cardinal Ratzinger's above-mentioned 1985 letter, almost two decades after the abolition of the Index ; but in 2001 Catholic Bishop Roman Danylak, by then a canon of Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome and no longer in charge of an eparchy, granted, in his own words, " a letter of commendation, a Nihil Obstat, Imprimatur and a testimonial to this website of a Catholic monk on the writings of Maria Valtorta " ( the website in question being one with the title "— A Contemporary Mystic — acclaimed one of the greatest: Maria Valtorta and her masterwork: The Poem of the Man-God " and in another letter stated that The Poem of the Man-God is, with the other writings of Valtorta, " in perfect consonance with the canonical Gospels, with the traditions and magisterium of the Catholic Church ".

The manor of Langham was a property of Westminster Abbey, and he had become a monk in the Benedictine Abbey of St Peter at Westminster by 1346, and later prior and then abbot of this house.

The stereotypical Arab destruction and the purported sale to a Jew possibly originated as a powerful metaphor for Nebuchadnezzar's dream of the destruction of a great and awesome statue, and would have been understood by any 7th century monk as evidence for the coming apocalypse.

At his recommendation a highly educated monk, Theodore of Tarsus, who understood both Latin and Greek, was chosen as Archbishop of Canterbury and consecrated on 26 March 668.

Writing against the monk Pelagius, whom he understood as teaching that man's nature was unaffected by the Fall, or at least was only weakened in the Fall, and that he was free to follow after God apart from divine intervention, Augustine developed the doctrine of original sin and, Calvinists contend, the doctrine of total inability.

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.

To the Zen monk the universe is still populated with `` spiritual beings '' who have to be appeased.

His predecessor in a like case was John Owtred, a monk who formulated the statement that Saint Peter had united in his hands spiritual and temporal power – the opposite of what Wycliffe taught.

He was taught about the spiritual life by the elder monk Martyrius.

In the field of religion, Huxley ’ s friend and spiritual mentor, the Vedantic monk Swami Prabhavananda, thought that mescaline was an illegitimate path to enlightenment, a " deadly heresy " as Christopher Isherwood put it.

* Aelred, Saint, English monk and spiritual writer

Bhikkhu Bodhi, an American Buddhist monk, has written: " By assigning value and spiritual ideals to private subjectivity, the materialistic world view ... threatens to undermine any secure objective foundation for morality.

* Father Solanus Casey, Capuchin monk and 20th Century spiritual figure, 1870 – 1957, USA

Furthermore, anyone wishing to undertake any of the traditional paths to spiritual knowledge ( which Gurdjieff reduced to three — namely the path of the fakir, the path of the monk, and the path of the yogi ) were required to renounce life in the world.

In Traditional Buddhism the Master-Disciple relationship is that of a priest / monk / teacher as the Master, and an aspirant / student as the Disciple or a spiritual friendship between two individuals.

Two youths, Gwisan ( 귀산, 貴山 ) and Chwihang ( 취항 ,-項 ), approached the Silla monk Won Gwang ( 원광, 圓光 ) seeking spiritual guidance and teaching, saying “ We are ignorant and without knowledge.

Rather than extend all his powers at once, the Black Mountain Yogi warned, he should endeavour to become a " spiritual seeker who has renounced family life ", a monk.

However, Johnny was ' saved ' by ' The Lure ' and Franky was saved by Rockefeller Patel, " The Buddha of Indigo City " a deeply spiritual Nepalese monk with a keen sense of service and sacrifice, who lived under the old Indigo City Central Gas Station and the tunnels under the city.

** Thomas Merton, 20th cent., Cistercian monk, spiritual writer

Later in the story it was to be revealed that he went into exile for political reasons, although it also served him for spiritual training since he was a warrior monk in his youth, and that his first name was actually Obi-Wan.

* Swami Vivekananda – monk, spiritual leader

Led by a desire for a stricter way of life than he found in that community, three years later he withdrew to become a hermit on a remote island in the region, accompanied solely by an older monk, Marinus, who served as his spiritual master.

As Chen is a devoted convert to Tibetan Buddhism ( he is ethnically Han ), he toured the island in a strong spiritual theme in his campaign, giving an image that some commented to be like an " ascetic monk ".

In 1294, the monk Kunpang Tukje Tsondru established the Puntsok Choling monastery at Jomonang, about 160 km northwest of the Tashilhunpo Monastery in Ü-Tsang ( Shigatse ), and the spiritual tradition that was established here became known as Jonang.

In his later years, Griffin focused on researching his friend Thomas Merton, an American Trappist monk and spiritual writer he first met in 1962.

Saint Gregory Palamas, bishop of Thessalonica, an experienced Athonite monk, defended Orthodox spirituality against the attacks of Barlaam of Calabria, and left numerous important works on the spiritual life.

The Tang Dynasty monk Wuran 無染 ( d. c. 840 ) had a spiritual vision in which Manjusri told him to support the Buddhist community on Mount Wutai.

These include writer, teacher and physician Deepak Chopra ; Trappist monk Father Thomas Keating ; Rabbi Marc Gopin ; Integral philosopher and author Steve McIntosh ; social critic, scientist, Muslim scholar and Noble Prize nominee Munawar Anees ; spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle ; spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar ; author Howard Bloom, scientist Rupert Sheldrake ; evolutionary biologist Elisabet Sahtouris ; and others.