The Monastic Order
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the chosen ones of the monastic habit · the common order of the monks · the monastic order · the monks
in the texts
Letters
The monastic order whose discipline Glycerius is accused of disgracing.
How long will you be senseless, and counsel ill for yourself, and trouble me, and shame the common order of the monks?
Barlaam and Josaphat
Communities of Christian ascetics in India, repeatedly persecuted by King Abenner.
" The monks said:
" At which the king, wishing, with feigned shrewdness, to catch the monks, said:
"You know, my friend, all that I have shown against the so-called monks and against all the Christians.