Tonsure

The tonsure is a practice adopted by some Christian Églises, consisting in shaving part of the hair of a clerk. Sign renunciation of the world, it is also, with the name change and taking the cloth, an element of a ritual of dead and rebirth which erases the Péché S former.

The tonsure is a practice born with the beginning of the Moyen-âge; it is not known at the first times of the Church and Jerome de Stridon even disapproves it. Mark infâmante reserved to the slaves, it is adopted initially by the Moine S before gaining the priests at the 6th century. As from the 7th century, several kinds of tonsures enter in competition:

  • the Eastern tonsure , consisting in shaving the head very whole, considered founded on the authority of the apostle Paul;

  • the tonsure Celtic , consisting in shaving before cranium, of ear in ear, considered founded on the authority of the apostle Jean;
  • the tonsure Roman , consisting in shaving only the top of cranium, the remainder of the hair forming a crown, considered founded on the authority of the apostle Pierre.

The Règle of saint Benoît (Lives.) mentions the additional tonsure of manner, while speaking about those which lie to God by their tonsure (ch.1, 7).

Within the Catholic church, the Roman tonsure overrides the two other forms and remains in force until 1972, date on which the motu landlord Ministeria quædam of Paul VI makes it optional.

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