La scelta vegetariana nella tradizione cristiana Augustine of Hippo (354-430), saint, bishop, his table was frugal and thrifty, consisting of vegetables and legumes.
Ambrose of Milan (339-397), saint, bishop, among the first doctors of the Latin Church, writer, advocate of the vegetarian diet was, excluded from his table meat, fish, eggs and dairy products, eating vegetables, fruits and vegetables. He said: "The meat is falling even eagles flying. "
Eremit to Antiochus, he lived up to one hundred years of eating raw vegetables and drinking only water.
Basil (330-379), saint, bishop, doctor of the Eastern Church, the father of eastern monasticism, monastic legislator. He founded a community of ascetics who were fed only bread and vegetables and drank only water.
Benedict of Nursia (480-547), saint, patriarch of western cenobitism, the rule in its absolute ban on meat for the monks and also for children.
Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153), saint and Doctor of the Church, lived on bread, milk and vegetable soup. Stated: "You will find more in the woods than in books."
Bonaventure Power (1651 ...), St. Francis in the rule of the Carthusian Order founded by him total abstinence from meat, which extended even to the sick monks: those who disobey this rule was expelled from the Order.
Catherine of Siena (1347-1380), saint, Doctor of the Church, one of the greatest writers of the fourteenth century, gave up eating meat from a young bread, raw herbs and drinking only water.
Caesarius of Arles, Saint, wrote two rules, the first for the monks, the second for the holy Virgin of the Monastery of St. John the Baptist. In this rule was strictly forbidden to eat meat.
Clare of Montefalco lived in the 13th century, lived on wild fruits and herbs and even sleeping on a bed made of stones is always kept in good health.
Blacks Filippo (1515-1595), after a vision not to eat meat or fish and eats only bread, herbs and some f burp.
Francesca Romana (1384-1440), saint, wife, mother, widow exemplary. He worked miracles sensational. Even as a young abstained from wine and meat.
Francesco di Paola (1416-1507), saint, hermit, founder dell’Ordine dei Minimi, per la sua dieta parca e frugale fu chiamato dai suoi contemporanei “mangiatore di radici”.
Fulgenzio di Ruspe , visse verso la fine del 5° secolo, santo, monaco e vescovo, non mangiava mai carne.
Giacomo Minore , apostolo, cugino di Gesù vescovo di Gerusalemme. Secondo Eusebio di Cesarea non mangiò mai carne di animali, né bevve vino.
Giovanni Battista , ultimo dei profeti ebrei, detto il precursore di Cristo, si nutriva di focacce e miele.
Giovanni Bono (1169-1249), fondatore dell’ordine degli Eremiti, non mangiava mai carne; consumava in una settimana what their brothers were eating in a day.
John of Avila (1499-1569), saint, priest, ate fruit and vegetables.
John Vianney (1786-1859), saint and spiritual guide, he ate almost entirely of potatoes.
Jerome (345-419), saint and Doctor of the Church, translated and revised the Bible, advocated a return to the condition prior to Sin: "Abstinence from meat starts with the coming of Christ."
Cottolengo Joseph (1786-1842), saint, founder of 4 female and one male community, where he established the rule that imposed an obligation not to eat meat.
Gregory Nazianzen (329-389), saint, bishop, doctor of the Eastern Church, considered the most learned theologian who ever lived, are reported to eat only lupine.
Leonardo da Porto Maurizio (1676-1751), saint, priest, writer, did not consume neither fish nor fowl.
Matthew, apostle, saint, evangelist. Clement of Alexandria reports that fed on fruit, seeds and vegetables.
Migne (1800-1875), French abbot, believed abstinence from meat that most contributed to the perfection and happiness of man.
Nicholas of Tolentino (1245-1305), Augustinian saint and hermit, abstained from meat, fish, dairy products and condiments with fat.
Nile (910-1004), St, ate bread, vegetables and fruit and drank only water.
Paconius (292-346), saint, founder of Life cenobitic, founder of many monasteries where the meals were made with herbs, bread, olives, cheeses with a total ban on meat and wine.
Paulinus of Nola (353-431), saint, always observe abstinence from meat.
Peter, apostle, saint. In libros Ricognitinoum Clement Romano reports that it harbored bread, olives and herbs rarely.
Peter of Alcantara (1499-1562), saint, ascetic Franciscan, one of the great English mystics, he ate three times a week eating only peas and beans.
Peter Galata , consuming only bread and water.
Peter Regalado, holy, a Franciscan of the Strict Observance, an extraordinary healer, who founded the communities members ate only vegetables, extending from meat and wine.
Pius V (1504-1572), saint, bishop, cardinal and then pope, he ate with fresh herbs and vegetables.
Thomas Aquinas (1220-1274), saint, the highest representative of the Medieval Scholastics, an eminent theologian, believed that meat, milk and eggs constitute the greatest incentive to lust.
Vincent Ferret (1350-1419) Dominican saint, is considered the greatest preacher of all time, abstained from meat.
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