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Explain the purpose and practice of ONE particular religious community.
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(a) (iii) - Explain the purpose and practice of ONE particular religious community The Carthusians were formed by St. Bruno in 1084; he and some friends went to live as hermits in the valley of Chartreuse. The Carthusian life hasn't changed much to this day. St. Bruno's saint day is on October 6th. The Carthusians are an extreme contemplative religious order, they are extreme because of the solitary conditions they live and pray in. They all have individual cells which are filled in such a manner as to assure the Carthusian a solitude as complete as possible while giving him the necessities of life. These homes are called a desert or hermitage. They are keeping an external solitude so they don't stop focussing on God, because if they were distracted they would be thinking of other things, not centred on God. There is a community aspect, which is balanced well with the...
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