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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Tonsure
		A sacred rite instituted by the Church by which a baptized and confirmed Christian is received into the clerical order by the shearing of his hair and the investment with the surplice.
		The person thus tonsured becomes a partaker of the common privileges and obligations of the clerical state and is prepared for the reception of orders.
		Historically the tonsure was not in use in the primitive Church during the age of persecution.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/14779a.htm (437 words)

	Archbishop Sheen Today! -- Angels
		The cassock or 'soutane' is the central vestment of all clerics of the Catholic Church except those members of orders or congregations who have a distinctive habit.
		It is floor length, with 33 buttons total, representing Christ's earthly years, topped with a roman collar.
		The zucchetto originated in the very early Church, around the 13th century, as the covering of the clerical tonsure.
	www.renewamerica.us /columns/kralis/040727 (1848 words)

	Adoration of the Sacrament
		These officers were at first generally clerics, later laymen, and finally the office became hereditary.
		This college at the present time is made up of two clerics and five laymen, one of the latter being dean.
		In the Middle Ages the execution of the less dignified functions, which were thought incompatible with the clerical office, was committed more and more to subordinates, and by the end of that period almost entirely to laymen.
	www.ccel.org /s/schaff/encyc/encyc01/htm/iii.ii.htm (17544 words)

	Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of April 3
		Once when her younger brother, Saint Faro, was visiting, he was so moved by her heavenly discourses that he resigned the great offices which he held at court, persuaded his fiancé to become a nun, and took the clerical tonsure.
		He called many synods during his travels, and drew up what are known as the Constitutions of Saint Richard, statutes that address the various abuses that he noticed in his travels.
		The sacraments were to be administered without payment, Mass celebrated with dignity, and the clergy to remain celibate, practice residence, and wear clerical garb.
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0403.htm (4318 words)

	TIMELINE 8th CENTURY page of ULTIMATE SCIENCE FICTION WEB GUIDE
		The venerable Egbert about this time converted the monks of Iona to Christianity, regulation of Easter, and the ecclesiastical tonsure.
		King Ceolwulf received the clerical tonsure, giving his kingdom to Edbert, his uncle's son: who reigned 21 years.
		Bishop Ethelwold and Acca died this year, and Cynewulf was consecrated bishop.
	www.magicdragon.com /UltimateSF/timeline8.html (7575 words)

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