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tpw536w | 16:34 Mon 22nd Jan 2007 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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Why are monks tonsured?

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Tonsure is the practice of some Christian churches, and some Hindu temples of cutting the hair from the scalp of clerics as a symbol of their renunciation of worldly fashion and esteem
I was always taught that the tonsure was a reminder of the crown of thorns
And yet another reason. See:
http://www.truecatholic.org/ordtonsure.htm

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