" This title hails back to England's separation from the See of Rome, when King Henry, as supreme head of the newly independent church, took over all of the monasteries, mainly for their possessions, except for St. Benet, which he spared because the abbot and his monks possessed no wealth, and lived like simple beggars, disposing the incumbent Bishop of Norwich and seating the abbot in his place, thus the dual title still held to this day.

The monks lived in separate huts, kalbbia, forming a religious hamlet on the mountain side.

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Nothing more was needed to ensure the rapid spread of the new association and Peter the hermit of Morone lived to see himself " Superior-General " to thirty-six monasteries and more than six hundred monks.

As these monks were celibate and lived in all-male communities, their populations were not self-sustaining.

Although he lived with a mistress — Bertha of Burgundy — and was excommunicated because of this, he was regarded as a model of piety for monks ( hence his nickname, Robert the Pious ).

From Chinese monks visiting India, we now know that both Mahāyāna and non-Mahāyāna monks in India often lived in the same monasteries side by side.

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

Between 1503 and 1504 More lived near the Carthusian monastery outside the walls of London and joined in the monks ' spiritual exercises.

Outside of the vassa period, monks and nuns both lived a migratory existence, wandering from town to town begging for food.

A transitional form of monasticism was later created by Saint Amun in which “ solitary ” monks lived close enough to one another to offer mutual support as well as gathering together on Sundays for common services.

Estimates are the upwards of 50, 000 monks lived in this area at any one time.

According to scriptural records, these celibate monks and nuns in the time of the Buddha lived an austere life of meditation, living as wandering beggars for nine months out of the year and remaining in retreat during the rainy season.

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.

The Augustinians, were then a comparatively new order, which ordained priests, but lived in community similar in style to monks.

These individuals often lived close to the monastery and, in certain instances, dressed as monks whenever they entered the monastery, but were allowed to leave at the end of the day.

The monks of the Bec Abbey who lived at Manor Farm in Ruislip in the 11th century owned a grange in Northwood.

Only a few monks and nuns lived in conspicuous luxury, but most were very comfortably fed and housed by the standards of the time, and few any longer set standards of ascetic piety or religious observance.

Owen was taken from her and raised by the monks and according to his nephew Henry VII's personal historian Vergil the child was raised as a monk by the name Edward Bridgewater where he lived until his death in 1502.

It was founded by German knights who lived in the castle for several hundred years, however these days it is occupied by monks and nuns.

Two different types of monks lived there and were both equally important in the success of Margam Abbey.

Around the same time, 13th century chronicler Matthew Paris wrote of the monks of St Albans Abbey " according to their custom, lived upon pasties of flesh-meat ".

Gehlek Rinpoche, who lived with Trungpa Rinpoche when they were young monks in India and later visited and taught with him in the U. S., remarked:

The Prime Minister paid his respects to the Buddhist monks, strode rapidly among the houses, joked with the local soldiery, and made a speech.

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.

The abbot is chosen by the monks from among the fully professed monks.

Benedictine monks who have not been ordained and all nuns are members of the laity among the Christian faithful.

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

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

These monks ' violence had already been used, 15 years before, by Theophilus ( Cyril's uncle ) against the " Tall Brothers "; furthermore, it is said that Cyril had spent five years among them in ascetic training.

Orthodox bishops are taken from among the monks.

The earliest original writings in Coptic language were the letters by St. Anthony of Egypt, first of the “ Desert Fathers .” During the 3rd and 4th centuries many ecclesiastics and monks wrote in Coptic, among them, St. Pachomius, whose monastic rule ( the first cenobitic rule, for solitary monks gathered in communities ) survives only in Coptic.

A flourishing period of Monte Cassino followed its re-establishment in 718 by Abbot Petronax, when among the monks were Carloman, son of Charles Martel ; Ratchis, predecessor of the great Lombard Duke and King Aistulf ; and Paul the Deacon, the historian of the Lombards.

Otto II employed monks among his top political advisers, including Ekkehard I and Majolus of Cluny.

Most famous among them are the chatur-amnaya mathas established by Adi Shankara which formed the nodal centres of under whose guidance the ancient Order of Vedantic monks were re-organised under ten names Dashanami Sampradaya, Ashta matha ( Eight monasteries ) of Udupi founded by Madhvacharya ( Madhwa acharya ) a dwaitha philosopher.

This led to the scholarly monks of the abbey, chief among whom was Dom Paul Jausions, spending over half a century finding and copying the most ancient chant manuscripts.

Landnámabók mentions the presence of Irish monks prior to Norse settlement, and states that the monks left behind Irish books, bells and crosiers, among other things.

However, recent studies indicate high genetic uniformity among ginkgo trees from these areas, arguing against a natural origin of these populations and suggesting that the ginkgo trees in these areas may have been planted and preserved by Chinese monks over a period of about 1, 000 years.

The monks often put forward candidates for Archbishop of Canterbury, either from among their number or outside, since the archbishop was nominally their abbot, but this could lead to clashes with the king and / or pope should they put forward a different man — examples are the elections of Baldwin of Forde and Thomas Cobham.

Leo allowed monks, persecuted and deported under his father, to return to their monasteries, and he was anointed by some among the orthodox as “ Friend to the Mother of God ” for allowing monks to retain images of the Theotokos.

In the case of Buddhism, both bhikkhus ( monks ) and bhikkhunis ( nuns ) were forbidden to take life in any form as part of the monastic code, while non-violence was promoted among laity through encouragement of the Five Precepts.

— were initially seen as too extreme, being liable to either upset the social values of the surrounding community or as likely to create schisms among the Sangha by encouraging monks to compete in austerity.

As early as the 11th century AD hermit monks were believed to be living among the caves and cutouts in the rocks.