As the castrati were tonsured and lacked facial hair, these traits can be used as indications for identifying castrati in manuscript illustrations and wall paintings.
The strongest ties - tonsure kinship - are only found among clerics, while regional affiliations are also confined to clerics.
Jogis shave people and make them their disciples: we have been tonsured by our love for him.
The abbot or hieromonk who performs a tonsure must be of at least the rank he is tonsuring into.
Those tonsured also wore a cross made of cypress wood around their necks on a white string.
Eventually, he was tonsured a monk, and continued his life of asceticism.
The minor orders of candle bearer and cantor are given before tonsure during ordination to the lectorate.
Those that practice complete tonsure generally ritually offer the hair to their family deity.
