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One who does not make religion a profession
Abbot, though a layman, received the degree of S.
Why the layman was forbidden a mixture of wool and linen (sha'atnez, Deut.
The king's son Louis, a layman of twenty-one, was made archbishop of Lyons.
He further tells us that in the ninth year of his reign he formally joined the Buddhist community as a layman, in the eleventh year he became a member of the order, and in the thirteenth he "set out for the Great Wisdom" (the Sambodhi), which is the Buddhist technical term for entering upon the well-known, eightfold path to Nirvana.
As chivalry directed the layman to defend what was right, so the preaching of the Crusades directed him to attack what was wrong - the possession by "infidels" of the Sepulchre of Christ.