what was Dom Perignon's childhood like before he entered to be a monk?
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I thought Dom Perignon is wine
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it where young men , and when I say young around the age of 18, they study to becomes monks(priest) as well as brothers and friars sometimes. The head of the monastery is the abbot. The one's who are ordained in the priesthood are fathers, and the one's who study in the monastery are brothers. They devour their life in the church as well as to God and they are connected to a religious order, such as Benedictine monks and work and pray. I went to a school where there was a monastery. :O)
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If I'm not mistaken he was an illegitimate son of a peasant girl and a man of breeding. He went and lived with his father, now as a bastard, and being brought up in a one parent family, you can either blame the world for your problems, or you use it as a means to propel you into making something of yourself. This certainly happened with Leonardo, single handedly starting a movement in painting and science, Renaissance man owes a debt of gratitude to a great modern man..... \nBut was he alien, I certainly hope not. I would like to think that men like him are proof that all human beings can aspire to greatness.....
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Oh yeah, all day long!\n\nCheck out Saul/Paul's story. He was killing and persecuting and stuff and as soon as Jesus showed up he was like, "Oh, I guess they ARE right."\n\nAnd then he was a longwinded lamb 'til Nero chopped off his head.\n\nThen, there was this guy I loved in college...
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http://www.fintushel.com/father_william.htm Here is a link to your answer.
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His noble heart\nThe influences of the priestes from the University of Salamanca where he was studying for his law degree. The Dominicans were against the social injustices against the Indians.\nThe fact that he witnessed the massacre of Native People in Cuba\nThe lack of support from the King of Spain towards more humanitarian approach to the New World's natives
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His parents are from the French island of Martinique. He was born in Paris and grew up in Martinique.
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He has a long list of accomplishments both before and after election to the papacy.\n\nHe has a long list of documents, books, plays and articles written by him.  If he were an professor, he would have been considered very accomplished.\n\nHe was an accomplished actor and athlete.  He was an avid downhill skiier and I have heard he represented Poland in Rugby.  I don't know if the last part is true or not.\n\nHe spoke fluently at least 12 languages and tried to learn the languages of every country he visited, he made 104 overseas trips.\n\n\nHe visited more countries than any other pope including Peter.\n\nHe has an extensive list of apologies for past wrongs committed by Christians.\n\nHe went a great distance in healing the rift with the other patriarchs, split since the Great Schism in Christianity.\n\nHe did a lot to bring down Communism both before and after election.\n\nEven his funeral brought about accomplishments.  The President of Iran and the Prime Minister of Israel were accidently seated near one another.  Iran has vowed the death of Israel.  The President got up, walked over to the Prime Minister and wished him well and spoke about how they grew up only sixty miles apart.  Prime Minister Sharon has since had a stroke, but you never know what can happen when avowed enemies spend even a moment together as people.
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Actually becoming a monk requires two things: \n1. Having a call from God.\n2. Accepting this call.\n\nTo verify if you are really called, you should pray and also talk to a catholic priest. \nAccepting God's call is done by you. What a joy and proud is to say Yes to God. It is a real test of our love for God.\nAfter that you should know what order (fransiscan, carmelite, jesuits,...) does God call you to be in. Then you see what are the requirements of that specific order (usually they are not that big deal). \nA monk has three vows: poverty, chastity and obedience.\nFor more help, you can e-mail me at volunteer4u_85@yahoo.com
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Martin Luther posted 95 Theses on the church door in 1517.\n\nJoan of Arc lived from 1412 to 1431 about 100 years before Protestants got started therefore she was a Catholic.\n\nWith love in Christ.
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a detailed biography from the man himself:\nhttp://www.dalailama.com/page.4.htm
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I think it is awesome. To think that he was raised in the palace, and left it to find his heritage. It is full of so much. I wonder, did he start out full of pride, all the paganism that he grew up with, the humbling that he went through, the stripping away of all that he had learned as a child destroyed, and he was made anew, and was one of the most humble of all men that lived.\n  Think about it! He talked with God, He saw Gods glory pass in front of him...That should give anyone hope, with all that Moses did before, even murder, and He had A glorious walk with God.
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Although it would be useful to know whether this is help in History or Literature, the traditional view is that Caesar was a man of particular skills in war, in love and in politics. He expanded the territory of the Roman Republic substantially, including conquering Gaul (pretty much equivalent to modern-day France). He advanced on power in a way that was almost expected of a man of his social standing, taking high office several times. The question is whether he envisaged himself becoming Dictator for Life at any point substantially before he became it. The classic point at which he is deemed to have decided his fate was when he crossed the Rubicon river, and essentially invaded his own city of Rome. This is understandably pegged as a key event in the transformation of a man who sought high office into the man who sought Dictatorship for Life.\n\nMy own view, based on essential first principles, is that any man who would have defined a role for himself in his own mind of Dictator for Life substantially before it became an absolute necessity to become one, would have been able easily to outwit and put down the assassination attempt that so rapidly overtook him.\n\nBefore crossing the Rubicon, he was in Gaul, having - and this is crucial - used most of the territory's wealth NOT to swell the Senate's coffers, but to pay off his own debts and establish his own financial independence. As he anticipated it would, this caused severe consternation among the Senate and particularly among his peers, who felt this was taking his power too far. So, being a bold, acquisitive 'rising star', what was he left to? Accept the potential punishment of the Senate, that could see him fall, and even be instructed to commit suicide? Or make another bold move, and push forward into territory that hadn't been seen in some time? Becoming Dictator would theoretically put him beyond that kind of censure, and having achieved it, enraging more nobles in the process, how do you step down and keep you rlife and fortunes intact? Give up the protection of the Dictatorship and you're as good as dead. So I believe he got there because he had the imagination and the  military success to establish himself, and clung on simply because he had no other realistic choice.
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Hitler was a Roman Catholic, baptized into that religio-political institution as an infant in Austria. He became a communicant and an altar boy in his youth, and was confirmed as a "soldier of Christ" in that church. The worst doctrines of that church never left him. He was steeped in its liturgy, which contained the words, "perfidious Jew." This hateful statement was not removed until 1961. Perfidy means treachery. \n\n\nHitler was not sure who his paternal grandfather was, but it was probably either Johann Georg Hiedler or his brother Johann Nepomuk Hiedler. There have been rumours that Hitler was one-quarter Jewish [1] and that his paternal grandmother, Maria Schicklgruber, had become pregnant after working as a servant in a Jewish household in Graz. During the 1920s, the implications of these rumours along with his known family history were politically explosive, especially for the proponent of a racist ideology. Opponents tried to prove that Hitler, the leader of the anti-Semitic Nazi Party, had Jewish or Czech ancestors. Although these rumours were never confirmed, for Hitler they were reason enough to conceal his origins. Soviet propaganda insisted Hitler was a Jew, though more modern research tends to diminish the probability that he had Jewish ancestors.
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Eh, read Dante's Inferno. :D\n\n- 16 yo Pagan
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You forgot about Amrapali- the prostitute who became a nun , a follower of Buddha. Sounds familiar?\n\nBuddhas mother had dreams about an extraordinary son. Christians took the tale one step ahead.\n\nThere are more similarities if you really start comparing.\n\nADDED:\n\nJesus did not predated Buddh. Buddha predates .Jesus by 500 years and was already a well established religion.\n\n"..... Buddhist monks lived in Central Asia, the conduit through which Buddhism traveled from India to the East. \n\nThe giant Buddha statues at Bamian in Afghanistan lay on the same road. \n\nThey have been destroyed, but a wonderful sleeping Buddha, 16m long, still lies peacefully in Tajikistan. \n\nAnd near Kampyr-Tepe, we were invited to the site of a Buddhist lamasery, where the mendicant monks lived underground in a labyrinth, to protect them from the terrible heat and cold of the plain. "\n\n(source: Uzbekistan's best kept secret - BBC news.com).
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I heard he was really pissed off at the church for allowing priests to accept indulgences, so he started HIS OWN CHURCH!\n\nNow THAT is rock and roll!