5.3 Monks and missionaries

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5.3 Monks and missionaries

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5.3 Monks and missionaries

How did christianity spread throughout North-Western Europe?

What is an example of a monotheistic belief?

1. Judaism
2. Christianity
3. Islam
4. All three are correct

Who was Jesus Christ?

Hermits

• Some early christians in Egypt   devote      their lives to God
  
• Resisting worldly temptations would bring you closer to God
• Lived alone - ate only when needed - wore simple clothing

give all or most of one's time or resources to (a person or activity).

Monasteries

• Hermits decided to live together in monasteries
  
• Inhabitants are called monks or nuns 
• To help each other resist temptation
• Lived by precepts; rules and regulations
• Head of a monastery: the abbot

Buildings used by people who have devoted their lives to God

Monks are male and Nuns are female

The church

The cloister (a covered walkway and courtyard)

All the monks eat together in the refectory

The kitchen

Monks sleep in the dormitory

Monks take care of sick people in the hospice

Pottery factory

Bakery

Visitors stay in the guesthouse

The entrance: the monastery is surrounded by a wall

Some monks work in the field

Pigsty

Monks went to the monastery church eight times a day in a routine of worship that involved singing, chanting, and reciting prayers from the divine offices and from the service for Mass.

Matins at dawn

Prime (6am) 

Terce (9am) 

Sext (noon)

Nones (3pm) 

Vespers (6pm or dusk) Compline (9pm or nightfall)

Name two differences between hermits and monks?

Some early Christians devoted their lives to God and lived in solitude without possessions. We called these people ............................  At a certain point they decided to live together in ..................................... Man who lived here were called ...................... and women were called ........................

Their rules and guidelines were written in the Regula Benedicti, were called ...............................

Hermits

Monasteries

Monks

Nuns

Precepts

Missionaries

• Not everyone in Europe had been converted
• Christians would call them heathens 
• Some monks would travel around to convert people to christianity
  
• They were called missionaries

Willibrord (658-739)

• Born in England
  
• Brought to a monastery at a young age
  
• Studied the Bible, taught to read and write in Latin
  
• First moved to Ireland, then sent to mainland Europe by the abbot
• To convert the heathens in the lowlands

Willibrord (658-739)

• Asked the pope permission ; named archbishop 
• Got help from the Frankish ruler Pepin II
• Converted most of the Netherlands

bisshop who has the right to set up his own churches

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