monastic habit

He withdrew from public life in 747 to take up the monastic habit.

"Let the matter be brought to an issue then according to our old- time monastic habit.

For a while the band wore green monastic habits on stage.

She is represented as holy woman by monastic habit and Gospel book.

Some even laid aside the monastic habit altogether, and assumed a secular dress.

Specifics included reform of the monastic habits, music and the theological preparation in the monasteries.

The inner-cassock and the skoufos are the first part of the Orthodox monastic habit.

It is an interesting garment which, with its long sleeves, has the flavour more of a monastic habit than a shroud.

After completing the novitiate, there are three degrees of or steps in conferring the monastic habit.

Feeling his end approaching, Cyril put on the monastic habit and died fifty days later (14 February 869).

He will be clothed in his monastic habit and a prayer rope placed in his hands.

On the re-establishment of his order at Chambéry he resumed his monastic habit there in 1818.

Narrowed eyes surveyed the monastic habit, the tall and vigorous horse, the broad, weathered face beneath the cowl.

There, having received the tonsure and assumed the monastic habit, he abandoned medicine and began a life of asceticism.

In this change of circumstance, he abandoned the monastic habit and Alexios allowed him to resume his old position as Caesar.

Example of a scapular that forms part of a monastic habit (Cistercian nuns)

As Pope he continued to follow the discipline of the Benedictine Rule and to wear his monastic habit.

The bishop enters the church clothed in his monastic habit and klobuk, and carrying his walking stick.

He was encouraged by Sellon, and largely influenced by Pusey, who presented him with his first monastic habit.

Hugues kept the episcopate for twenty years and then was buried at Saint Cybard near the monastic habit.

From prison St. Peter traveled to Rome to fulfill a promise to God that he would take the monastic habit.

The monks buried there were buried in the traditional Trappist manner, in their monastic habit and without a casket.

Ball was only the second Anglican bishop since the English Reformation to be consecrated as a member of a religious order in a monastic habit.

When an Orthodox monk dies, his body is washed and clothed in his monastic habit by brethren of his monastery.

He held the office for twenty years, having taken the monastic habit, and very little is recorded of his activities; presumably his monastic life was quiet.