- A
mendicant (from Latin: mendicans, "begging") is one who
practices mendicancy,
relying chiefly or
exclusively on alms to survive. In principle, mendicant...
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Mendicant orders are
primarily certain Catholic religious orders that have
vowed for
their male
members a
lifestyle of poverty, traveling, and living...
- A
friar is a
member of one of the
mendicant orders in the
Catholic Church.
There are also
friars outside of the
Catholic Church, such as
within the Anglican...
- the
Carmelites or
sometimes by
synecdoche known simply as Carmel, is a
mendicant order in the
Catholic Church for both men and women.
Historical records...
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unified through a
loose structure of
leadership and oversight.
Later the
mendicant orders such as the Carmelites, the
Order of
Friars Minor, the
Order of...
-
Homestuck is a
webcomic written, illustrated, and
animated by
Andrew Hussie as part of MS
Paint Adventures (MSPA). The
webcomic centers on a
group of teenagers...
- in Cambodia.
Takuhatsugasa (托鉢笠): a
Buddhist mendicant's kasa. A
woven rice-straw kasa worn by
mendicant Buddhist monks, the
takuhatsugasa is made overlarge...
- Jain
monasticism refers to the
order of
monks and nuns in the Jain
community and can be
divided into two
major denominations: the
Digambara and the Śvētāmbara...
- with the cenobitical. The
original reference was to the
gathering of
mendicants who
spent much of
their time travelling. Technically, a
monastery is a...
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housing mendicants, even temporarily, it
becomes unfit for use by
mendicants. That is
because it no
longer remains 'free of faults'
since mendicants become...
