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	Tonsure - LoveToKnow 1911
		It is administered by the bishop with an appropriate ritual.
		In the Celtic tonsure (tonsure of St John, or, in contempt, tonsure of Simon Magus) all the hair in front of a line drawn over the top of the head from ear to ear was shaven (a fashion common among the Hindus).
		The question of the Roman or Celtic tonsure was one of the points in dispute in the early British Church, settled in favour of the Roman fashion at the Council of Whitby (664).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Tonsure (560 words)

	tonsure - Encyclopedia.com
		In the West the tonsure consisted of a circular patch on the crown of the head from which the hair was kept cut; some tonsures kept the entire head shaved above the ears, and some retained a broad band of hair around the head.
		THIS shaving was known as a tonsure, from the Latin tonsura, a haircut.
		According to Bede, the tonsure separated the cleric from the layman.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-tonsure.html (1059 words)

	Tonsure
		Tonsure is the practice of some Christian churches and Hindu temples of cutting the hair from the scalp of clerics as a symbol of their renunciation of worldly fashion and esteem.
		Peter, and was the practice of the Catholic church until obligatory tonsure was abolished in 1972.
		Once a seminarian received the tonsure, which for most consisted of a symbolic cutting of a few tufts of hair or at most a small bald spot toward the back of the head, he was officially considered a cleric, and in medieval times obtained the civil benefits of clerics.
	www.dejavu.org /cgi-bin/get.cgi?ver=93&url=http%3A%2F%2Farticles.gourt.com%2F%3Farticle%3DTonsure%26type%3Den (826 words)

	Tonsure
		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.
		Tonsure is to be given by a candidate's ordinary, though mitred abbots can bestow it on their own subjects.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/t/tonsure.html (421 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Tonsure
		Tonsure is the practice of some Christian churches of cutting the hair from the scalp of clerics as a symbol of their renunciation of worldly fashion and esteem.
		Peter, and was the practice of the Catholic church until obligatory tonsure was abolished in 1972.
		Once a seminarian received the tonsure, which for most consisted of a symbolic cutting of a few tufts of hair or at most a small bald spot toward the back of the had, he was officially considered a cleric, and in medieval times obtained the civil benefits of clerics.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Tonsure (847 words)

	Tonsure - OrthodoxWiki
		A tonsure is the cutting of hair, and is a part of several sacraments of initiation.
		Clerical tonsure is done prior to the ordination to the rank of reader.
		This has led to the common usage that one is "tonsured a reader," although technically the rite of tonsure occurs prior to the actual ordination by laying on of hands.
	www.orthodoxwiki.org /Tonsure (155 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Tonsure
		Historically the tonsure was not in use in the primitive
		Tonsure is to be given by a candidate's ordinary, though mitred abbots can bestow it on their own subjects.
		In Britain, the Saxon opponents of the Celtic tonsure called it the tonsure of Simon Magus.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/14779a.htm (442 words)

	Tonsure - OrthodoxWiki (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A tonsure is the cutting of hair, and is a part of several sacraments of initiation.
		Clerical tonsure is done prior to the ordination to the rank of reader.
		This has led to the common usage that one is "tonsured a reader," although technically the rite of tonsure occurs prior to the actual ordination by laying on of hands.
	orthodoxwiki.org /Tonsure (155 words)

	Catholic Culture : Document Library : Holy Orders - Part I
		The tonsure is not a real order — that is, it confers no specific sacred power to the person who receives it — but it is a ceremony by which the Church marks off from the rest of the faithful those whom she calls to the service of the altar.
		The reception of the tonsure implies the wearing of the clerical garb, or cassock.
		The prayers, which accompany the rite of the tonsure, are an admirable explanation of the ceremony, as well as a most eloquent exposition of the mind of the Church regarding the dispositions, which she expects to find in those who seek to be enrolled in the ranks of her ministers.
	www.catholicculture.org /docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=3625 (2732 words)

	Bambooweb: Tonsure
		Tonsure is the practice of some Christian churches of cutting the hair from the scalp of clerics.
		Monastic tonsure (of which there are three grades, Rassophore, Stavrophore and Great Schema) is the rite of initiation into the monastic state and finally clerical tonsure, which is done prior to the ordination to the lowest clerical rank, that of reader.
		Once a seminarian received the tonsure, he was officially considered a cleric, and in medieval times obtained the civil benefits of clerics.
	www.bambooweb.com /articles/t/o/Tonsure.html (578 words)

	Tonsure Information
		Tonsure is the practice of some Christian churches and Hindu temples of cutting the hair from the scalp of clerics as a symbol of their renunciation of worldly fashion and esteem.
		This has lead to the common usage that one is "tonsured a reader", although technically the rite of tonsure occurs prior to the actual ordination by laying on of hands.
		Once a seminarian received the tonsure, which for most consisted of a symbolic cutting of a few tufts of hair or at most a small bald spot toward the back of the head, he was officially considered a cleric, and in medieval times obtained the civil benefits of clerics.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Tonsure (796 words)

	The Tonsure - The Clerical Haircut
		The origin of the tonsure must probably be sought in the custom prevailing among the Romans of shaving the head of a slave.
		The wearing of the tonsure was made obligatory for all clerics during the Middle Ages.
		Tonsure may be conferred on any day and at any hour of the day.
	www.truecatholic.org /ordtonsure.htm (1587 words)

	Chapter 26 - Tirupati Balaji was a Buddhist Shrine - By Dr. K. Jamanadas
		And in any case, these tonsures associated with Vedic rites cannot explain the tonsures at Tirumalai for a simple reason that Vedic tonsures are privileges to be enjoyed only by so called 'twice born', whereas, at Tirumalai it is practiced by all castes and predominantly by the non-twiceborns.
		Daksa forbade tonsure, the offering of pindas and the carrying of a corpse and all funeral rites to one whose father was alive and to a man whose wife was pregnant.
		Though this discrimination is unfair, it should be realised that the ultimate effect of even this sentences of tonsure resulted in condemnation by the society and deprivation of the means of sustenance, because many times in the case of punishment to the brahmins by tonsure, they were also excommunicated and driven out of the village.
	www.ambedkar.org /Tirupati/Chap26.htm (3535 words)

	TONSURE (Lat. tonsura,... - Online Information article about TONSURE (Lat. tonsura,...
		middle ages this tonsure was lessened for the clergy, but retained for monks and friars.
		Church this tonsure is held to be adequately shown when the hair is shorn See also:
		Till the loth century the tonsure could be given by priests or even by laymen, but its bestowal was gradually restricted to bishops and abbots.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /THE_TOO/TONSURE_Lat_tonsura_from_tonder.html (760 words)

	tonsure — FactMonster.com
		The tonsure of St. Peter consists in shaving the crown and back of the head, so...
		Tonsures - Tonsures vary in size according to rank.
		For clerics the tonsure should be I inch in diameter.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/society/A0849045.html (209 words)

	AllRefer.com - tonsure (Christianity, General) - Encyclopedia
		In the West the tonsure consisted of a circular patch on the crown of the head from which the hair was kept cut; some tonsures kept the entire head shaved above the ears, and some retained a broad band of hair around the head.
		one of the outstanding questions between the Celtic use and the Roman use was the tonsure, which the Celts made by cutting the hair off the front part of the head.
		The Roman Catholic Church abolished the practice of tonsure in 1972.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/T/tonsure.html (201 words)

	Summa Theologica (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But the tonsure is given even outside the office of the Mass.
		Now in the Divine worship are certain actions that have to be exercised by virtue of certain definite powers, and for this purpose the spiritual power of order is given; while other actions are performed by the whole body of ministers in common, for instance the recital of the Divine praises.
		Hence this appointment should be made by the supreme minister, namely the bishop, who moreover blesses the vestments and vessels and whatsoever else is employed in the Divine worship.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/aquinas/summa.XP_Q40_A2.html?bcb=0 (460 words)

	Summa Theologica \| Christian Classics Ethereal Library
		Therefore one is imprinted likewise in receiving the tonsure.
		Therefore the tonsure by which he is made a cleric is an Order.
		Reply to Objection 1: The tonsure has some spiritual thing inwardly corresponding to it, as signate corresponds to sign; but this is not a spiritual power.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/aquinas/summa.XP_Q40_A2.html?highlight=a (460 words)

	Hindu Tonsure
		"By oblations to fire during the mother's pregnancy, by holy rites on the birth of the child, by the tonsure of his head with a lock of hair left on it, by the ligation of the sacrificial cord are the birth taints of the three classes wholly removed." (ii.
		Suppose the infant were taken ill, or misfortune were to happen to him, a vow might be made to a certain god that the first hair-cutting of the child should take place at the shrine of the god invoked.
		The real sacred tonsure is not performed until what may be called the religious coming of age.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles38/hindu-6.shtml (3534 words)

	St. Colman
		The origin of the tonsure comes from the ancient Roman custom of shaving the head of a male slave as a way of indicating the master’s power—the slave’s forced submission to the master’s will is so complete that he even loses the ability to control the appearance of his own hair.
		Various religious orders practiced tonsure among themselves for hundreds of years, and toward the beginning of the sixth century many clerics in the North had revived the custom in a modified form: not shaving the whole head.
		The tonsure controversy, therefore, was directly related to the larger issue of whether to follow ancient ways that had been preserved from the earliest Christians or to conform to modern practices being imposed at a distance from Rome.
	www.allsaintsbrookline.org /celtic/saints/colman.html (1182 words)

	Tonsure — Infoplease.com
		The tonsure of St. Peter consists in shaving the crown and back of the head, so as to leave a ring or “crown” of hair.
		This is sometimes called “the tonsure of Simon the Magician,” and sometimes “the Scottish tonsure,” from its use in North Britain.
		Tonsures - Tonsures vary in size according to rank.
	www.infoplease.com /dictionary/brewers/tonsure.html (185 words)

	Royal Tonsure Jewels (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Royal Tonsure ceremony, or the cutting of the top knot, marked the end of childhood and the beginning of adulthood.
		It involved royal children wearing the most splendid costumes, and vast amount of jewels on all parts of the body.
		The jewels worn during the ceremony were brooches and bracelets put together to form one large chest-piece.
	www.geocities.com /threeb.rm/tonsure.html (171 words)

	The Tonsure and Minor Orders - Deacon’s Blog (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Luckily, the tonsure and the full range of minor orders were maintained in the PNCC.
		The Fourth Council of Constantinople (869-870) Canon 5, discuses the acceptance of tonsure and the intent of the tonsured.
		As noted, the tonsure is the transition point from the lay to the clerical state.
	konicki.com /blog2/2006/01/28/the-tonsure-and-minor-orders (2337 words)

	LM
		The tonsure was a point of friction between Celtic and Latin monks in the British Isles of the seventh and eighth centuries.
		The smaller tonsure of diocesan clergy marked admittance to clerical privileges.
		The practice of clerical tonsure was abandoned by the Reformers.
	www.er-d.org /19625_15485_ENG_HTM.htm (162 words)

	LM
		The tonsure was a point of friction between Celtic and Latin monks in the British Isles of the seventh and eighth centuries.
		The smaller tonsure of diocesan clergy marked admittance to clerical privileges.
		The practice of clerical tonsure was abandoned by the Reformers.
	www.episcopalchurch.org /19625_15485_ENG_HTM.htm (162 words)

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