(1) He spent two years as a monk in Germany and then became secretary to a French bishop.

(2) To live like a monk

(3) As a teenager, he was set on becoming a Franciscan monk until he took high school acting lessons.

(4) He declared that it was his last mathematics book, and entered the Benedictine Order as a monk .

(5) He wanted to be a monk , not a busy town parson continually beset by unreasonable people.

(6) He then requests the ten basic vows of a novice monk and repeats each as it is recited to him.

(7) He was the first Westerner to be ordained as a monk by the Dalai Lama and now teaches at Columbia University.

(8) Benedictine monk

(9) He was on his way to visit his brother Raimond, who was a monk in the Dominican monastery there.

(10) All the community of Evesham was there, every monk and lay brother eager to greet their donors.

(11) Libertarian ideas, he thought, were like a delicate candle flame ever threatening to gutter; they could only be tended to monkishly by a tiny and obscure remnant.

(12) Paul aims to write the P.C. version of his life, an untrue confession that squares his late-in-life monkishness with his youthful travels as a young squire.

(13) They were originally built for a community of monks from Val des Choux in Burgundy.

(14) He still works long hours and lives monkishly up near the Housatonic River in Connecticut.

(15) Priests and monks had to follow a strictly regimented set of activities every day.

(16) For Erasmus, divine contemplation was synonymous with idleness and monkish solitude was nothing more than baneful selfishness.

(17) He has attended several retreats at the abbey, run by the Catholic order of Benedictine monks .

(18) Both forms of ordination require a quorum of five ordained monks or nuns with a minimum of ten years in the Order.

(19) One by one the monks glided from the church, each stopping to kiss the most sacred icons as they went.

(20) When a group of Dominican monks founded a house in the rue St Jacques in Paris they became known as Jacobins.