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1 Who played Detective Patterson the telemovie Monk?

2 What role did Josh Stamberg play in the telemovie Monk?

3 Who played Martin Willowby the telemovie Monk?

4 What role did David Weisenberg play in the telemovie Monk?

5 Who played Ricky Babbage the telemovie Monk?

6 Who played John Ricca the telemovie Monk?

7 What role did Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje play in the telemovie Monk?

8 Who played Anna Pollard the telemovie Monk?

9 Who played Sgt. Parnell the telemovie Monk?

10 What role did Jon Polito play in the telemovie Monk?

đŸ’¡ Interesting Facts

  • after serving as a border guard, Saint Claudius of Besançon became, successively, a priest, monk, abbot, bishop, and then an abbot again, in the 7th century?
  • historian V. H. Galbraith considered the medieval English monk Hemming to be the first archivist in English history?
  • in Tum Teav, a classic 19th century Cambodian tragedy, a novice monk named Tum sleeps with a adolescent girl named Teav and then is killed after kissing her at her wedding?
  • the greatest shrine of the Pochayiv Lavra in Ukraine is a footprint left by the Theotokos on the rock after she appeared to the monks in the shape of a column of fire?
  • Truc Lam Temple is named after the Zen sect founded by Emperor of Vietnam Tran Nhan Tong, who abdicated the throne to become a monk?
  • Reinald, a 13th century Cistercian monk and Bishop of Ross, was nicknamed Macer, French for "skinny"?
  • Earl Donnchadh of Carrick gave lands to Paisley Abbey so that he could found a new abbey at Crossraguel, but because the monks of Paisley wanted to keep the lands for themselves the foundation was delayed?
  • Beatus of Lungern, a first century Christian missionary to Switzerland, is often depicted as a monk fighting a dragon?
  • Philip of Poitou, Bishop of Durham from 1197 to 1208, quarrelled so fiercely with his monks that he tried to burn them out of a church, and later excommunicated the entire chapter?
  • Bohdan Khmelnytsky's son Yurii, who spent half his adult life as a monk, was repeatedly proclaimed Hetman of Ukraine by various foreign powers?
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