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- Christian monasticism was and continued to be a lay condition—monks depended on a local parish church for the sacraments. However, if the mo...
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- Eastern Christian Monasticism is the life followed by monks and nuns of Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy and Eastern Catholicism. Some authors...
- male, deceased (1359)
- Gregory Palamas was a monk of Mount Athos in Greece and later Archbishop of Thessalonica known as a preeminent theologian of Hesychasm. He is...
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- Siddhārtha Gautama was a spiritual teacher from ancient India and the historical founder of Buddhism. He is universally recognized by Buddhists as t...
- male, deceased (356)
- Saint Anthony the Great (ca.251 - 356), also known as Saint Anthony Abbot, Saint Anthony of Egypt, Saint Anthony of the Desert, Saint Anthony the...
- female, deceased (1179)
- Selected English translations of Hildegard *Atherton, Mark, trans. "Hildegard of Bingen: Selected Writings". London: Penguin, 2001. *Baird, Joseph...
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- John Climacus, also known as John of the Ladder, "John Scholasticus" and "John Sinaites", was a 6th century Christian monk at the monastery on...
- male, deceased (1894)
- St. Theophan the Recluse, also known as "Theophan Zatvornik" (Russian: Феофан Затворник), (1815-1894) is a well-known saint in the Russian Orthodo...
- male, deceased (420)
- Pelagius (ca. 354 - ca. 420/440) was an ascetic monk and reformer who denied the doctrine of Original Sin from Adam and was declared a heretic by...
- male, deceased (826)
- Theodore the Studite, also called "St Theodore of Stoudios" or "St Theodore of Studium" (759 - 826), was a Byzantine monk and abbot of the Stoudios...
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