I can't believe I'm asking, but its History HW, and I have been sitting here frustrated about it for half and hour...>:(
2007-01-22 15:19:13 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Tolstoy. He became insanely wealthy from his first few books and he was quite a philanderer and drinker, ect. He then gave it all up (much to the chagrin of his wife) to worship god and plow his fields. Kind of a weird guy though. Look into it.
2007-01-22 15:43:38 · answer #1 · answered by fifimsp1 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are dozens of examples of Christian Saints who did purely this: Born in 1181, Francis gave up a existence of luxurious and luxurious to commence a sparkling non secular order. Melania is subsequently the most effectual of those various saints, who're defined as having withdrawn from on a daily basis existence to pursue holiness, “as punishments for her previous existence of luxurious” Saint Francis Xavier, apostle of India and Japan rejected a existence of "luxurious and dissolution" and so on... Moses gave up a existence of luxurious as a Prince of Egypt to change right into a frontrunner of slaves.
2016-10-15 23:29:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Saint Francis of Assisi the Roman Catholic friar who founded the Franciscan order
Mahatma Ghandi
and not that I would put him in the same category as the above...but John Robbins was heir to the Baskin-Robbins ice cream fortune, but turned it down to become a vegan activist.
2007-01-22 16:06:44 · answer #3 · answered by cat c 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm thinking Mother Teresa. She left the church to start a nurturing enter from scratch. She progressed and became a Nobel Prize Winner.
2007-01-22 15:28:18 · answer #4 · answered by Ayan (ai-en) 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think Paris Hilton, in The Simple Life.
Edit: Beaten by 30 seconds...
2007-01-22 15:24:27 · answer #5 · answered by eldad9 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure. As a member of the lineage to David, Jesus of Nazareth could have become a very affluent member of society if he so chose. He instead decided to travel about with minimal possessions, living close to his father and his disciples.
2007-01-22 15:23:01 · answer #6 · answered by Theophile 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yeah on Stardate 2160.1.4 one Captain James T. Kirk went off riding on a camel and never came back.
2007-01-22 15:24:37 · answer #7 · answered by Insulting Other Participants 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
St. Francis and some other Christians (More often Catholic), many Tibettan monks. I would guess that there are others as well.
2007-01-22 15:25:13 · answer #8 · answered by Deirdre H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
St. Francis of Assissi is the most prominent one I can think of.
2007-01-22 15:51:42 · answer #9 · answered by TomParrish 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Paris Hilton? Wait no, she just did it to pursue media coverage
2007-01-22 15:23:57 · answer #10 · answered by fancy unicorn 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋