Nitrian monks came from the desert and instigated a riot against Orestes among the population of Alexandria.

However, the monks were not satisfied, and one of them, Ammonius, threw a stone and hit Orestes in the head, and so much blood flowed out that he was covered in it.

Orestes ' guard, fearing to be stoned by the monks, fled leaving Orestes alone.

In 708, some monks at Hexham accused Bede of having committed heresy in his work De Temporibus.

Arriving at Nazianzus, Gregory found the local Christian community split by theological differences and his father accused of heresy by local monks.

* Hypatia of Alexandria, Neoplatonist philosopher, is murdered by a Christian mob of Nitrian monks who accused her of paganism.

His rebec was damaged by a mob that accused him of murder, but one of the monks repaired it and returned to him at the end of the story.

He accused the monks of creating additional rules above what is contained in the Bible.

Plethon derides Aristotle for discussing unimportant matters such as shellfish and embryos while failing to credit God with creating the universe, for believing the heavens are composed of a fifth element, and for his view that contemplation was the greatest pleasure ; the latter aligned him with Epicurus, Plethon argued, and he attributed this same pleasure-seeking to monks, whom he accused of laziness.

The government accused Buddhist monks of immorality and many Protestants used this to forward their missionary work.

On the other hand, he was not accused, like other married bishops who had been monks or friars, of infidelity to the vow of chastity ; and his own letters to Heinrich Bullinger are curiously reticent on this part of his history.

Lumey has been accused of more than one atrocity, including the execution without trial ( 9 July 1572 ) of the so-called " Martyrs of Gorkum ", Dutch Roman Catholic monks and priests who eventually secured sanctity ( 1867 ).

However, when a deputation of monks led by Basalota Mikael accused him of incest for marrying Emperor Wedem Arad's concubine Jan Mogassa and threatened to excommunicate him, he claimed to be the biological son of the Emperor's brother Qidm Asagid ; this explanation may have had its origins in court gossip.

Thus, he recalled the Jesuit Cardinal Bellarmin's sentences concerning the authority of religious councils concerning matters of dogma versus de facto issues ; he also recalled the debate between St Athanasius and St Basil concerning the interpretation of Dionysus of Alexandria, who was accused by Basil of Arianism and therefore convoked before the Pope Dionysius in 262 ; or the various contradictory papal interpretations given to the Scythian monks ; as well as another debate concerning Pope Honorius I, who had been later anathematized by the Third Council of Constantinople, although Cardinal Bellarmin defended Honorius ' orthodoxy, claiming that the condemned propositions were not to be found in Honorius.

Women attempting to ordain have been accused of attempting to impersonate monks ( a civil offense in Thailand ), and their actions have been denounced by many members of the ecclesiastic hierarchy.

Towards the Catholics he adopted a firm, but moderate and reasonable, tone, and his indulgence towards the monks in St Knud's cloister drew down upon him a fierce attack from the Puritan clergyman of Odense, who absurdly accused him of being a crypto-Catholic.

Saint John Cassian speaks of an abbot of the Thebaid who had 500 monks under him.

The monks, then kneeling, gave him the kiss of peace on the hand, and rising, on the mouth, the abbot holding his staff of office.

All the produce of the monks ' labour was committed to him, and by him shipped to Alexandria.

The kindness of some monks supplied him with his first workshop, which was the vacant cell of a monastery.

During this period, he established contacts with the hermits and monks of the desert, including Pachomius, which would be very valuable to him over the years.

None but Irish monks were to accompany him.

In the only creation of cardinals promoted by him, among the twelve raised to the purple, there were two monks of his order.

Mipps escaped in the confusion of Syn's death and disappeared from England, but it is said that a little man very much like him is living out his days in a Buddhist Monastery somewhere in the Malay Peninsula, delighting the monks with recounting the adventures of Doctor Syn and the eerie stories of the Romney Marsh and the mysterious Scarecrow and his night riders.

Born into a family of relatively low status, his parents sent him to be educated by the monks of Fulda-one of the most impressive centres of learning in the Frank lands-perhaps due to his small stature ( Einhard referred to himself as a " tiny manlet ") which restricted his riding and sword-fighting ability, Einhard concentrated his energies towards scholarship and especially to the mastering of Latin.

When he was about seventy-five years of age, the monks of Sinai persuaded him to become their Igumen.

John Climacus is shown at the top of the Ladder of Divine Ascent ( icon ) | The Ladder of Divine Ascent, with other monks following him, 12th century icon ( St. Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai ).

The monastery was built with funds given by the Byzantine Emperor Constantine IX, after three monks, living in caves nearby, had petitioned him while he was in exile on the island of Mytilene.

It has been reported that Abu Qulabah narrated: Some of the Companions of the Prophet ( peace be on him ) decided to relinquish the world, forsake their wives, and become like monks.

The first to join him was his elder brother John, and soon more than 100 monks lived at his monastery.

While in Rome he assisted at a council then being held concerning certain questions on " the life and monastic peace of monks ", and, on his departure, took with him to England the decree of the council together with letters from the pope to Lawrence, Archbishop of Canterbury, and to all the clergy, to King Ethelbert of Kent, and to all the English people " concerning what was to be observed by the Church of England ".

Upon his accession he wrote to Peter the Venerable and the monks of Cluny, asking them to pray for him, while he was congratulated by Arnulf of Lisieux.

He had himself carried into the chapter-house, issued various decrees for the benefit of the abbey, appointed with the consent of the monks the prior, Cardinal Oderisius, to succeed him in the abbacy, just as he himself had been appointed by Stephen IX, and proposed Odo of Ostia to the assembled cardinals and bishops as the next pope.

If he does not go, let two stout monks, in the name of God, explain the matter to him.

The next day the poor man leads him in the guise of a wild man into the piazza, where, being recognized, he is apprehended by his fellow monks and imprisoned.

The four knights, wielding drawn swords, caught up with him in a spot near a door to the monastic cloister, the stairs into the crypt, and the stairs leading up into the quire of the cathedral, where the monks were chanting vespers.

Later Turnbull moved to Dharamsala, India where he took the monks ' vow of Tibetan Buddhism, given to him by the Dalai Lama.

His reputation was such that a number of monks requested him to write a book to kindle their zeal ; and his letter to Joscelin, later archbishop of Bordeaux, who had asked him to decide a dispute between Bishop Isembert of Poitiers and his chapter, is evidence of the authority attributed to his judgment.

Historically, in some Celtic monasteries abbesses presided over joint-houses of monks and nuns, the most famous example being Saint Brigid of Kildare's leadership in the founding of the monastery at Kildare in Ireland.

Bocks have a long history of being brewed and consumed by Bavarian monks as a source of nutrition during times of fasting.

From the Eastern Orthodox perspective, a council is accepted as being ecumenical if it is accepted by the Eastern Orthodox church at large – clergy, monks and assembly of believers.

After the close of the Diet, the papal nuncio went to the Netherlands, where he instigated the executions of two monks of Antwerp due to their embrace of the Reformation, resulting in their being burnt in Brussels.

Most of the manuscripts were created by Christian monks, who may well have been torn between the desire to record their native culture and their religious hostility to pagan beliefs resulting in some of the gods being euhemerized.

* 1178 – Five Canterbury monks see what is possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed.

As preserved in the ancient Sarvastivada school's Sutra on Mindfulness of the Body in the Madhayama agama ( equivalent of Pali Kayagatasati ) it states that monks and nuns under practice should be ' Understanding ( having awareness in ) the four postures and states of being asleep and / or awake '.

He had just returned from the Levant after being forced out by his monks in 1122.

The events of this period would later figure heavily in 16th century legends of the temple's patron saint Vajrapani, with the story being changed to claim a victory for the monks, rather than a defeat.

The monks were jailed after publicly being flogged and paraded through the street as people threw rubbish at them.

" Wong cites the " Sinew Metamorphosis " as being a qigong style that the Buddhist saint taught to the monks to strengthen their bodies.

* First written record of whiskey being consumed recorded in Ireland, where it was distilled by Catholic monks.

* June 18 – Five Canterbury monks see what is possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed.

There has also been, mostly under the Osmanli occupation of Greece and Cyprus, an " idiorrhythmic " lifestyle where monks come together but being able to own things individually and not being obliged to work for the common good.

In Japan, where civil authorities permitted Buddhist monks to marry, being the head of a temple or monastery sometimes became a hereditary position, passed from father to son over many generations.

The monks moved from Barnoldswick to Kirkstall displacing the hermits, some of whom joined the abbey, the rest being paid to move.

Hooke coined the term cell for describing biological organisms, the term being suggested by the resemblance of plant cells to monks ' cells.

At its head was an abbot, the first incumbent being Geoffrey of Canterbury, former prior of Christ Church, Canterbury, the Kent monastery that probably supplied Dunfermline's first monks.

Money should not be accepted by a Buddhist monk or nun in lieu of or in addition to food, although nowadays not many monks and nuns keep to this rule ( the exception being the monks and nuns of the Thai Forest Tradition and other Theravada traditions which focus on vinaya and meditation practice ).

However, Bede speaks of " the monastery of Bangor, in which, it is said, there was so great a number of monks, that the monastery being divided into seven parts, with a superior set over each, none of those parts contained less than three hundred men, who all lived by the labour of their hands.