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Monks and nuns could be recognized by their habits. Habits were special clothes, like uniforms. They often wore plain clothing, and a cross upon a chain around their necks. Some monks wore hair shirts as undershirts, to purposely scratch their skin and constantly remind them of the suffering that Jesus had done. Monks only had hair at the sides of there heads because when they went into the monastery it showed that they had nothing to hide from God.

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