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| c. 475 |
| | | The Syrian desert is full of hermits living on pillars, following the example of St Simeon Stylites | |
|  | Pillar of Simeon the Stylite
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| c. 500 |
| | | Monks in Ireland live in stone beehive cells on rocky islands, to achieve maximum discomfort | |
|  | Beehive stone house, 6th century
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| c. 500 |
| | | Small ivory panels, with Gospel scenes carved in relief, provide a delicate beginning to the story of Christian sculpture | |
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| c. 500 |
| | | Clovis and some 3000 of his soldiers are baptized in a massive ceremony at Reims | |
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| 525 |
| | | Dionysius Exiguus, commissioned by the pope to improve chronology, makes an error of at least four years in his selected event for AD 1 | |
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| c. 525 |
| | | St Benedict gathers fellow hermits at Subiaco into a series of small monasteries | |
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| 527 |
| | | The monastery of St Catherine's in Sinai is founded by Justinian, and will accumulate one of the world's greatest collections of icons | |
|  | Icon, St.Catherine's Monastery
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| c. 530 |
| | | St Finnian founds the first of Ireland's great Celtic monasteries, at Clonard | |
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| c. 530 |
| | | St Benedict founds a monastery at Monte Cassino and writes a Rule for the monks which becomes the basis of the Benedictine order | |
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| c. 543 |
| | | Christianity reaches the kingdom of Dongola, in present-day Sudan | |
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