Word: monasticism
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Almost nothing is known of Bosch's life except that he was a member of a semi-monastic lay community. Critic Fränger, basing his judgment on clues found in the paintings, thinks Bosch was also secretly an Adamite, a member of a sect called "Brethren of the...
Roman Among Peasants. Aside from his controversial letter-writing, Jerome kept his learning inside his monastery. In his 20s he had spent five solitary years as a hermit in the Syrian desert. After leaving Rome, he re-entered the monastic life for good. Inside the monastery, the razor-witted controversialist...
Herbert is a logical man. He holds to logic as a drowning man clings to a paper straw. He would have liked to join the navy, the most logical and four-square of professions, if his father had not entered him for Winchester, with an equally austere and monastic tradition...
But there was one thing that set Gerard apart from other English gentlemen of his time: he was a Jesuit priest. Under the fine doublet he wore a monastic hair shirt. Concealed in his saddlebags he carried a Mass kit and a Latin breviary. For 17 years, John Gerard, S.J...
Students packed the large lounge of Harkness Commons yesterday to hear Her Royal Highness Princess Alice of Greece discuss "The Origin of Monastic Orders in Eastern and Western Churches" at the Law School Coffee Hour.