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5 unusual facts about asceticism


Elder Isidore

While still in the womb, his mother was told to have visited St. Seraphim of Sarov, who called her from a crowd and bowed before her, prophesying that her son would a great Ascetic.

John Cassian

During the first level, Purgatio (in Greek, Catharsis), young monks struggled through prayer and ascetic practices to gain control of "the flesh"—specifically by purging their gluttony, lust and desire for possessions.

Siddharudha Swami

Sadguru Siddharudha Maharaj lived in the style of an ascetic throughout his life.

Stoicism

Both encourage Ascesis with respect to the passions and inferior emotions such as lust, envy and anger, so that the higher possibilities of one's humanity can be awakened and developed.

William A. Caldwell

In 1931 he began writing his six-day-a-week editorial column called "Simeon Stylites", named after Saint Simeon Stylites, a 5th-century ascetic who lived on top of a pillar for 39 years.


Abu Isa

He made some minor alterations to the general set of Rabbinic laws and his followers became ascetic in their manners.

Aibert

Moved by a wandering minstrel singing a hymn of lament to Saint Theobald, Aibert began to live a life of asceticism with a Benedictine priest named John near the abbey in Crespin.

Baba Siddharth Gautam Ram

His GURU ( Spiritual Teacher ) Great Saint Bhagwan Ramji alias Awadhoot Bhagwan Ram is believed to have created him out of his Tapobal(power of asceticism).

Brethren of the Common Life

banded together in communities, giving up their worldly goods to live chaste and strictly regulated lives in common houses, devoting every waking hour to attending divine service, reading and preaching of sermons, labouring productively, and taking meals in common that were accompanied by the reading aloud of Scripture: "judged from the ascetic discipline and intention of this life, it had few features which distinguished it from life in a monastery", observes Hans Baron.

Buddha's Birthday

Kheer, a sweet rice porridge is commonly served to recall the story of Sujata, a maiden who, in Gautama Buddha's life, offered the Buddha a bowl of milk porridge after he had given up the path of asceticism following six years of extreme austerity.

Constitutions of the Carmelite Order

The reform led by Teresa of Ávila and John of the Cross restored Carmelite life with a new joy and asceticism.

Fedoseevtsy

There were small groups of the Fedoseevtsy in the Soviet Union, who had been moving away from religious intolerance and asceticism.

Hilary of Arles

Following the example of St Augustine, he is said to have organized his cathedral clergy into a "congregation," devoting a great part of their time to social exercises of asceticism.

Kuda-gitsune

The origin of this practice is traced back to a yamabushi who obtained this art while undergoing strict asceticism on Mount Kinpu.

Matt Talbot

The Venerable Matt Talbot (2 May 1856 – 7 June 1925) was an Irish ascetic revered by many Catholics for his piety, charity and mortification of the flesh.

Takaaki Yoshimoto

In the 1990s, after characterizing the Yoga practices of Asahara Shoko of Aum Shinrikyo as expressing the inner core of early Buddhist asceticism, Yoshimoto was criticized along with Nakazawa Shin'ichi as a defender of Aum following the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway.

Tempus clausum

During this closed time the believers shall prepare in their personal lifestyle through prayer, penance, repentance, almsgiving, and self-denial for the solemnity days.


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