tonsuring

On the tonsuring of the clergy.

The rites of "Setting Aside a Taper-bearer" and "Tonsuring a Reader" have now been combined into one service.

One of the chief traditions of the temple, is the tonsuring of devotees, who vow to discard their hair in imitation of the Lord of Palani.

The total tonsuring of the head is in imitation of the holy Apostle James, brother of the Lord, and the Apostle Paul, and of the rest.

These words were probably written after the capture and tonsuring of the king in 731 by unnamed opponents who kept him for a while in a monastic centre, somewhere presumably in Northumbria.

Due to Archbishop Joseph Signay's reservations (Signay noted Méthot's poor eyesight, which the latter sought treatment for), Méthot's tonsuring was delayed.

Eusebius received the tonsuring to remban (rabban in syriac) on Saturday 11 September 2010 at Sacred Heart Malankara Catholic Church, Mylapra.

He bore a token tonsuring, a small but precise shaven area no larger than two fingers in breadth, but the rest of his hair was long and drawn back in a thin, tightly plaited braid, untouched by grey.

He would receive the tonsure later, during the ceremony of actual profession-something Javan found vaguely disturbing, though Hubert had assured him that tonsuring was symbolic only, and did not bind him irrevocably to the religious state.

That same Queron even then was emerging from an underground passage in a village at the foot of Caerrorie Castle, some miles eastward, disguised as a common monk, his Gabrilite braid once again sacrificed in the interests of less distinctive tonsuring.

The tonsuring of Osred at York could suggest that he did not enjoy the support of Archbishop Eanbald, whereas the likelihood that Deira was the power-base of Aethelred receives strong support from the records for his second reign.