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  2. Bede - Wikipedia

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    Bede (/ b iː d /; Old English: Bēda; 672/3 – 26 May 735), also known as Saint Bede, the Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable (Latin: Beda Venerabilis), was an English monk, author and scholar.

  3. Bede Griffiths - Wikipedia

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    Bede Griffiths OSB Cam [1] (17 December 1906 – 13 May 1993), born Alan Richard Griffiths and also known by the end of his life as Swami Dayananda ("bliss of compassion"), was a British-born Catholic priest and Benedictine monk who lived in ashrams in South India and became a noted missionary.

  4. Monk - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 22 February 2025. Member of a monastic religious order For other uses, see Monk (disambiguation) and Monks (disambiguation). Portrait depicting a Carthusian monk in the Roman Catholic Church (1446) Buddhist monks collecting alms A monk (from Greek: μοναχός, monachos, "single, solitary" via Latin ...

  5. Sokushinbutsu - Wikipedia

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    In medieval Japan, this tradition developed a process for sokushinbutsu, which a monk completed over about 3,000 days. [8] It involved a strict diet called mokujiki (literally, ' eating a tree '). [10] [9] The monk abstained from any cereals and relied on pine needles, resins, and seeds found in the mountains, which would eliminate all fat in ...

  6. Death of a Monk - Wikipedia

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    The plot occurs in Damascus, 1840.Aslan is a 15 years old religious, Jewish teen, one of the outwardly pampered sons of the Farhi family. Additionally, he is gay.Behind closed doors, he is abused and beaten by his siblings, mother and father; at school the other kids make fun of him, especially when he and Moussa, another delicate lad, are caught holding hands.

  7. Anthony the Great - Wikipedia

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    Anthony is sometimes considered the first monk, [14] and the first to initiate solitary desertification, [16] but there were others before him. There were already ascetic hermits (the Therapeutae ), and loosely organized cenobitic communities were described by the Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria in the 1st century AD as long established ...

  8. List of Monk characters - Wikipedia

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    Monk decides to meet Molly, and the two of them quickly start bonding and forming a friendship. According to Monk, Molly seems to be similar to Trudy not only in appearance but also in her mannerisms. With Molly filling the void that Trudy's death left in his life, Monk initially decides to retire from detective work.

  9. Deathbed - Wikipedia

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    A deathbed is a place where a person dies or lies during the last few hours before death. Deathbed or Death Bed may also refer to: Death Bed: The Bed That Eats, a 1977 horror film "Death Bed (Coffee for Your Head)", a 2020 single by Powfu featuring Beabadoobee "A Death-Bed", a 1918 poem by Rudyard Kipling