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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
Celtic priests had a distinctive tonsure: They shaved the front of their heads unlike the Romans, who shaved a ring around the crown. [5] The Celtic tonsure was described as that of St. John, John being Iain in Scottish Gaelic. [5] Mac Mhaoil Iain translates as "son of Bald-Iain", i.e. son of one who bore the tonsure of St John. [5]
Side view, showing the tonsure to the rear of the head. The stone head, sculpted from local Cretaceous limestone, has a maximum height of 234 mm and width of 174 mm. The sculpture was broken into at least five pieces sometime in antiquity. [3] Four pieces have been found in fairly good condition.
The Aberlemno I roadside symbol stone, Class I Pictish stone with Pictish symbols, showing (top to bottom) the serpent, the double disc and Z-rod and the mirror and comb. The Picts were a group of peoples in what is now Scotland north of the Firth of Forth, in the Early Middle Ages. [1]
Clergy wore special short hairstyles called the tonsure; in England the choice between the Roman tonsure (the top of the head shaven) and the Celtic tonsure (only the front of the head shaven, from ear to ear) had to be resolved at the Synod of Whitby, in favour of Rome.
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 ...