{"slug": "asceticism", "label": "Asceticism", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asceticism", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q179807", "qid": "Q179807", "description": "lifestyle of frugality and abstinence of various forms, often for spiritual goals", "entries": 10, "years": 10, "span": [270, 931], "span_label": ["270 CE", "931 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Deaths", "count": 5}, {"title": "Births", "count": 3}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "egypt", "label": "Egypt", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "sassanid-empire", "label": "Sassanid Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "manichaeism", "label": "Manichaeism", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "atropatene", "label": "Atropatene", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "christians", "label": "Christians", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 270, "year_label": "270 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Anthony the Great, a Christian saint from Egypt, regarded as \"Father of All Monks\", enters the wilderness to become ascetic.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358050431#Africa", "title": "270", "revid": 1358050431, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 273, "year_label": "273 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "King Hormizd I of Persia dies after a brief reign in which he has shown tolerance toward the ascetic, anti-materialist Manichean faith. He is succeeded by his brother Bahram I, who has been governing the province of Atropatene. Bahram proceeds to crush a rebellion by various vassal kings.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1325892096#Persia", "title": "273", "revid": 1325892096, "section": "Events › By place › Persia"}}, {"year": 345, "year_label": "345 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Evagrius Ponticus, Christian monk and ascetic (d. 399)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1287502922#Births", "title": "345", "revid": 1287502922, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 399, "year_label": "399 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Evagrius Ponticus, Christian monk and ascetic (b. 345)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364933714#Deaths", "title": "399", "revid": 1364933714, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 613, "year_label": "613 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "April 22", "text": "April 22 – Saint Theodore of Sykeon, Byzantine ascetic", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364755983#Deaths", "title": "613", "revid": 1364755983, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 619, "year_label": "619 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "John Moschus, Byzantine monk and ascetical writer", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340802932#Deaths", "title": "619", "revid": 1340802932, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 634, "year_label": "634 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "En no Ozunu, Japanese ascetic (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1299946990#Births", "title": "634", "revid": 1299946990, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 699, "year_label": "699 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "June 26", "text": "June 26 – En no Ozunu, Japanese ascetic, is banished to Izu Ōshima (a volcanic island in the Izu Islands), and accused of confusing the mind of the people with magic. He will be later regarded as the founder of a folk religion called Shugendō.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340806595#Asia", "title": "699", "revid": 1340806595, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 883, "year_label": "883 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Ibn Masarra, Muslim ascetic and scholar (d. 931)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341129939#Births", "title": "883", "revid": 1341129939, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 931, "year_label": "931 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Ibn Masarra, Muslim ascetic and scholar (b. 883)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364917472#Deaths", "title": "931", "revid": 1364917472, "section": "Deaths"}}]}