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TONSURE

Tonsure is the religious practice of having the head shaved before entering the priesthood or becoming a monk. Until 1973 in the Roman Catholic Church, the crown was shaved (leaving a surrounding fringe to resemble Jesus' crown of thorns); in the Eastern Orthodox Church the hair is merely shorn close. For Buddhist monks, the entire head is shaved except for a topknot.
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BENEDICT BISCOP

Benedict Biscop was an Anglo-Saxon monk. He was born in 628 or 629 in Northumbria and died in 690. He was of a noble Northumbrian family and at the age of twenty-five he accompanied Wilfrid on a pilgrimage to Rome. Here he lived for more than ten years, when he returned to England; but not very long after he again went to Rome on a mission from the King of Northumbria. On his way back he entered the Benedictine monastery of Lerius, in Provence, where he took the tonsure, and remained some time. On a third visit to Rome he was commissioned to return to England as assistant and interpreter to Theodoric, Archbishop of Canterbury.

In 674 he founded a monastery at the mouth of the Wear, and endowed it with numerous books, pictures, and relics obtained by him on his various journeys to Rome. In 682 he founded a second monastery at Jarrow, dependent on that of Wear-mouth. His great pupil the 'Venerable Bede,' who was a monk in the monastery of Jarrow, and who wrote his life, was undoubtedly much indebted to the collections made by Benedict Biscop for the learning he acquired.
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CALOTTISTS

The Calottists were a satirical society founded in 1702 by Aymon and Torsac, of Louis XIV's bodyguard, and deriving its name from the calotte, a small cap worn by priests to conceal their tonsure. The society was transformed into a military institution around the middle of the 18th century and was finally suppressed at the revolution.
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GUILLAUME DUBOIS

Guillaume Dubois French cardinal. He was born in 1656 at Brives-la-Gaillarde and died in 1723.The son of an apothecary, when he was only thirteen he took the tonsure, being known as the 'Little Abbe.' In 1687 he became tutor to the Duke of Chartres, afterwards Duke of Orleans and regent,, and in 1701 Chartres, then Duke of Orleans, made him his secretary, and when he became regent of France in 1715 made him his chief minister. Dubois maintained his influence by pandering to the vices of his pupil. He became privy-councillor and overseer of the duke's household, and minister for foreign affairs under the regency.

As the best means of thwarting the schemes of Philip V of Spain and his supporters in France in 1716, Guillaume Dubois, on November the 28th, signed a defensive alliance between France and England. Accepted by Holland on January the 4th 1717, this was known as the Triple Alliance. Guillaume Dubois then supported England in opposing the Spanish attempt to conquer Sardinia and Sicily, and in demanding the dismissal of Giclio Alberoni, which he effected, after a short war with Spain, in December 1720.

The archbishopric of Cambrai having become vacant, Guillaume Dubois ventured to request it of the regent, although he was not even a priest. The regent was astonished at his boldness; but he obtained the post, having in one morning received all the clerical orders, and, a few days after, the archbishopric. By his consummate address he obtained a cardinal's hat, and in 1721 was appointed prime-minister.

Guillaume Dubois was an avaricious, lying, licentious creature, yet clever and industrious, and able to make himself very agreeable where it suited his interest.
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ABBES WIG

An abbes wig was an 18th century style of man's wig with three rows of rolled curls covering the neck and tonsure at the crown.
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AETOLIAN TONSURE

The Aetolian tonsure is a man's hair style first originated among the men of Aetolia during the 17th century, and subsequently associated with monks.
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CALOTTE

A calotte was a cap or coif worn over the tonsure by ecclesiastics in France in the 15th and 16th centuries. The name was also applied to the padded cap which knights wore under their helmet, and, during the reformation, to a close-fitting woman's head-dress.
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ZUCCHETTO

A zucchetto is a Roman Catholic skull-cap worn by an ecclesiastic and (prior to 1973) covering the tonsure. The colour of the zucchetto varies with rank: that of a priest is black, of a bishop or monsignor purple, of a cardinal red and of the pope white.
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