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after serving as a border guard , Saint Claudius of Besançon priest , monk , abbot , bishop , and then an abbot again, in the 7th century ?
historian V. H. Galbraith considered the medieval English monk Hemming archivist in English history?
in Tum Teav 19th century Cambodian tragedy, a novice monk named Tum sleeps with a adolescent girl named Teav and then is killed after kissing her at her wedding?
the greatest shrine of the Pochayiv Lavra Ukraine is a footprint left by the Theotokos she appeared to the monks in the shape of a column of fire ?
Truc Lam Temple Zen sect founded by Emperor of Vietnam Tran Nhan Tong , who abdicated the throne to become a monk ?
Reinald 13th century Cistercian monk and Bishop of Ross , was nicknamed Macer , French for "skinny"?
Earl Donnchadh Carrick gave lands to Paisley Abbey so that he could found a new abbey at Crossraguel , but because the monks of Paisley wanted to keep the lands for themselves the foundation was delayed?
Beatus of Lungern first century Christian missionary to Switzerland , is often depicted as a monk fighting a dragon ?
Philip of Poitou Bishop of Durham from 1197 to 1208 , quarrelled so fiercely with his monks that he tried to burn them out of a church, and later excommunicated the entire chapter?
Bohdan Khmelnytsky 's son Yurii monk , was repeatedly proclaimed Hetman of Ukraine by various foreign powers?
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