MENDICANTS – THE BEGGING RELIGIOUS ORDERS OF MIDDLE AGE

Life in a religious order was admired from immemorial time. People of Middle Age held it in greatest regard. In early Christian times and in Middle Age period the monks were considered as true Christians who were able to renounce their own life to take up the way of total following of Christ. “The escape before the world” could have several forms: from the departure to remote place to symbolic separation, which gave possibility to monks not to leave dwelled centers and so not to interrupt the relationship with the society