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What were the different religious orders of monks and how did they come about?
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A Catholic answer Not many years after Jesus died, rose again, and sent the Apostles to preach the Good News, the armies of the Roman Empire destroyed Jerusalem (70 A.D.), obliterating the holy city, and dispersing the surviving Jewish and Christian inhabitants throughout the Mediterranean region and the East. The Roman empire began to persecute Christians everywhere. Some were martyred in the arena; some went underground to live as well as they might, and some fled into the desert regions to live in imitation of Saint John the Baptist to fast and pray and purify themselves. The ones who went into the desert to live holy lives became known as the Desert Fathers and many of these became famous for their wise sayings and are revered down to our own day by Eastern Orthodox as well as Catholics of the Roman and the various Eastern Churches. The holiest of the Desert Fathers often attracted disciples, those young men who were willing in Jesus' words, "to sell all that they have and give it to the poor" and "leave Mother and Father" and "follow Me [Christ]." The custom of a group of men willing to give up everything in order to seek the Lord, living, praying, and fasting together had taken a firm hold by the 6th century or so. Saint Benedict was one of these, and he wrote a Rule for his brethren - a rule being rather like an Army Field Manual for monks - what to do, how and when to do it - the Rule was designed to follow the Gospel as closely as possible. Over the centuries, more establishments of brethren who wanted to renounce everything and seek the Lord while living together in community like the early Christians were established. Most were established for special missions, such as preaching, (the Dominicans), charitable works Franciscans), devotion to prayer and ascetical works like the Carthusians. Answer Well, a few hundred years after Jesus died, Christianity became distorted, people didn't have copies of the Bible, if they did, it was in another language and so on. so then came about Monks and hermits. They belived that they could please God by beating them selves up, not eating or drinking for long periods of time or taking vows of silence, sometimes for years. Now, if they still do that today or if there are any left today, or of Budist monks, I have no idea. Answer I presume looking at the category you are referring to Christian monks although the term is loosely applied to other faiths and is generally taken to mean a person abstaining from consumption of certain foods, sex and relationships in order to become more pure and concentrate on getting closer to God. In the Christian world monks usually refers to males who live in communities with the same aims and nuns the female version. John the Baptist and Jesus were both known to remove themselves from society fasting and preparing themselves (Luke 4 1.13 "Man does not live by bread alone"). Monks who do not live in communities but alone are often referred to as hermits but monks may withdraw even within a community for certain periods. Different communities were founded which still exist today and follow the rules set out by their founder these include the Benedictines, Augustinians, Franciscan's, Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary, Anglican Sisterhood etc but are too many and diverse to list here. Despite the reputation some communities are not always withdrawn completely from society and some do much educational and charity work.
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