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  2. Tonsure - Wikipedia

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    Roman tonsure (Catholicism) Tonsure (/ ˈ t ɒ n ʃ ər /) is the practice of cutting or shaving some or all of the hair on the scalp as a sign of religious devotion or humility.. The term originates from the Latin word tonsura (meaning "clipping" or "shearing" [1]) and referred to a specific practice in medieval Catholicism, abandoned by papal order in 19

  3. Synod of Whitby - Wikipedia

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    The Synod of Whitby was a Christian administrative gathering held in Northumbria in 664, wherein King Oswiu ruled that his kingdom would calculate Easter and observe the monastic tonsure according to the customs of Rome rather than the customs practised by Irish monks at Iona and its satellite institutions.

  4. Celtic Rite - Wikipedia

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    The Roman Easter and tonsure were adopted by the Picts in 710, and at Iona in 716–18, and much later, in about 1080, St. Margaret of Scotland, wife of King Malcolm III, wishing to reform the Scottish church in a Roman direction, discovered and abolished certain peculiar customs of which Theodoric, her chaplain and biographer, tells us less ...

  5. Head shaving - Wikipedia

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    A Thai Buddhist monk shaving the head of a man preparing to also become a Buddhist monk; this is known as tonsure. Head shaving is a form of body modification which involves shaving the hair from a person's head. People throughout history have shaved all or part of their heads for diverse reasons including aesthetics, convenience, culture ...

  6. Religious habit - Wikipedia

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    The habit is formally bestowed upon monks and nuns at the ceremony known as the tonsure (Greek κουρά). The parts of the Eastern Orthodox habit are: Inner Rason (Greek: Έσώρασον, Ζωστικὸν or Ἀντερί, Esórason; Slavonic: Podryásnik): The inner rason (cassock) is the innermost garment. It is a long, collared garment ...

  7. Historical Christian hairstyles - Wikipedia

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    The Fourth Council of Toledo (633) denounced the lectors in Galicia who wore a small tonsure and allowed the hair to grow immoderately, and two Councils of Rome (721 and 743) anathematized those who should neglect the regulations in this matter. In the ninth century there is more distinction between freemen and slaves, as regards the hair.

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    However, Lukather, 67, isn't sure how Cuomo actually feels about "Africa." In a new interview on Matt Pinfield’s KLOS radio show New & Approved, the guitar player said, "I don’t know about him ...

  9. Mšecké Žehrovice Head - Wikipedia

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    The visual imagery of the La Tène period was characterized by an ubiquitous appearance of an anthropomorphic head symbol typical of Central and Western Celtic Europe [6] These images were skillfully entwined in ornaments, handles, jewelry and reliefs fashioned mostly of metals.