Chapter
1 1| foal. On his way he met a monk, a venerable elder, a stranger,
2 1| his prayers. The venerable monk, when he had ended his orisons,
3 1| understanding of book-learning?" The monk raised his hands and his
4 1| cherish them exceedingly?" The monk answered and said, "If thou
5 1| him of divine favour, the monk prepared to proceed on his
6 1| ground, at the feet of the monk, and besought h—n to come
7 1| as you are, Father." The monk, astonished at his faith,
8 1| bowed low before him. The monk blessed them, and they offered
9 1| accepting any food, the monk went into the chapel, taking
10 1| know them, Father." The monk replied, "I told thee that
11 1| the boy, receiving the monk's blessing, began to recite
12 1| and after accompanying the monk to the house, placed food
13 1| blessing on the parents, the monk was anxious to proceed on
14 1| what he is to do." The holy monk, after considering and becoming
15 1| Having thus spoken the monk left, pronouncing a dark
16 1| After the departure of the monk, it became evident that
17 2| being desirous of becoming a monk. He often expressed this
18 2| renounced the world and became a monk in the Holy Mother of God
19 2| all that is required of a monk. After a while, however,
20 2| give me the tonsure of a monk. From childhood have I loved
21 2| the name he received as monk. In those days it was the
22 2| give to the newly tonsured monk the name of the saint whose
23 2| Sergius, the newly tonsured monk, partook of the Holy Sacrament
24 2| novice and a newly tonsured monk." The abbot was astonished
25 3| course here as an ordinary monk." The brethren urged him
26 3| once. He who would be a monk was ordered, first, to put
27 3| later, he was given full monk's attire of cloak and hood.
28 3| and go the round of the monk's cells. If he heard anyone
29 3| standing by, asked, "Who is the monk sitting on the princes right
30 3| monastery, where he became a monk, and there spent several
31 5| possessed in common, no monk was to hold property of
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