Christian monasticism

thumb|First native Catholic priest in the Belgian Congo, wearing a Roman cassock with the standard 33 buttons. Early 1900s.

The Philokalia (, from philia "love" and kallos "beauty") is "a collection of texts written between the 4th and 15th centuries by spiritual masters" of the mystical hesychast tradition of the Eastern Orthodox Church. They were originally written for the guidance and instruction of monks in "the practice of the contemplative life". The collection was compiled in the 18th century by Nicodemus the Hagiorite and Macarius of Corinth based on the codices 472 (12th century), 605 (13th century), 476 (14th century), 628 (14th century) and 629 (15th century) from the library of the monastery of Vatopedi

early Christian hermits, ascetics, and monks who lived mainly in the Scetes desert of Egypt beginning around the third century AD

thumb|An anchorite's cell in Holy Trinity Church, Skipton thumb|Christine Carpenter (anchoress)|Christine Carpenter was walled in to a cell in St James's Church in [[Shere, Surrey.]] thumb|The Anchorite (1881), by Teodor Axentowicz

thumb|Greek Orthodox clergyman wearing clerical kalimavkion. thumb|Russian Orthodox style kamilavka A kalimavkion (), kalymmavchi (καλυμμαύχι), or, by metathesis of the word's internal syllables, kamilavka (), is a clerical headdress worn by Orthodox Christian and Eastern Catholic monks (in which case it is black) or awarded to clergy (in which case it may be red or purple). An approximate equivalent in the Latin Church is the biretta ().

Christian devotional practice

promises made by members of religious communities

Item used in Christianity to assist prayer

Christian religious orders separated from the external world

ecclesiastical overgarment

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thumb|St. Theophan the Recluse wearing a klobuk. thumb|A Byzantine Rite|Byzantine Catholic Metropolitan wearing a white klobuk thumb|Klobuk of Patriarch Philaret of Moscow (1619-33), Kremlin museum

Roman saint

A hierodeacon (Greek: Ἱεροδιάκονος, Ierodiákonos; Slavonic: Ierodiakón), sometimes translated "deacon-monk", in Eastern Orthodox Christianity and all other Churches that follow Byzantine Rite is a monk who has been ordained a deacon (or deacon who has been tonsured monk). The term literally translates as "sacred servant (of God)", in accordance with early Byzantine usage of the adjective "sacred" to describe things monastic.

parish church in Romsey, Hampshire, England, UK

thumb|The Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia wearing the koukolion The koukoulion (Greek: κουκούλιον; Slavonic: kukol) is a traditional headdress worn by monks and certain patriarchs in Eastern Christianity.

monastery for both monks and nuns

member of a Catholic order

early Christian ascetics, 3rd–5th centuries AD

Egyptian poet, lawyer, civic administrator

American Christian movement

Adelphate (, from the Greek adelphos = brother), is the right of some person to reside in monastery and receiving subsidies from its resources. This right was either purchased or exchanged for some property during medieval period, when feudal lords wanted to secure for themselves shelter after retirement or losing control over their fiefs. An adelphate was valid in name of the exact person, and could not be resold, transferred or even inherited by another.

Form of Christian monastic life

Re-emphasis of monastic rule at the expense of secular clergy in English religious communities in the late 10th century

stages an Eastern Orthodox monk or nun passes through in their religious vocation

solemn admission of people into a Catholic Christian religious order by means of public vows

any collection of desert father stories

13th-century Greek Orthodox monk