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  • 51Carthusian — Order Abbreviation O.Cart., Carthusians Motto Stat crux dum volvitur orbis …

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  • 52Collège de Sorbonne — See also: Sorbonne The Sorbonne, Paris, in a 17th century engraving …

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  • 53Matera —   Comune   Comune di Matera Panorama of Matera …

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  • 54Franciscan — Ordum Fratrum Minorum Order of Friars Minor …

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  • 55Mount Athos — Ἅγιον Ὄρος Agion Oros (Αυτόνομη Μοναστικὴ Πολιτεία Ἁγίου Ὄρους) Aftonomi Monastiki Politia Agiou Orous location of Mount Athos in Greece …

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  • 56Canonical hours — Benedictine monks singing Vespers on Holy Saturday. Canonical hours are divisions of time which serve as increments between the prescribed prayers of the daily round. A Book of Hours contains such a set of prayers. In western Catholicism,… …

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  • 57Hermit — A hermit (from the Greek anachōreō , signifying to withdraw , to depart into the country outside the circumvallated city ), recluse and solitary . However, it is important to retain a clear distinction between the vocation of hermits and that of… …

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  • 58Anchorite — (male)/anchoress (female), (adj. anchoritic; from the Greek polytonic|ἀναχωρέω anachōreō, signifying to withdraw , to depart into the rural countryside ), denotes someone who, for religious reasons, withdraws from secular society so as to be able …

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  • 59Abraham the Great of Kaskhar — was the father of the Assyrian monastic revival in the 6th century. He is hailed as a doctor and saint of the Assyrian Church of the East.He was born in Kaskhar in Persia around 492. He left there to preach the Gospel at Al Hirah, leaving there… …

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  • 60Mar Awgin — Died ca. 379 Honored in Assyrian Church of the East Mar Awgin (died ca. 379), also known as Saint Eugenios, founded the first cenobitic monastery of Asia. Originally, Saint Eugenios was a pearl fisher from the island Clysma or Kolzum near Suez in …

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