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If you want to be a great Christian man, apparently you pretty much have to have a beard. At least a lot of the great ones did!
In no particular order, here are some of salvation history’s greatest beards.
1) St. Anthony the Great
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2) Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I
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3) Moses
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4) St. Peter the Apostle
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http://www.patheos.com/blogs/simchafisher/2014/06/25/jimmy-akin-wins-everything/
6) John Calvin
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7) Phil Robertson
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8) The father of the Prodigal Son
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9) St. Augustine
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10) Meno Simmons
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11) These Franciscan Friars of the Renewal
http://beardsandcatholicism.tumblr.com/post/25165964098/franciscan-friars-of-the-renewal
12) St. Paul the Apostle
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13) St. Jerome
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14) St. Francis of Assisi
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15) Elijah the Prophet
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16) And, of course, these guys
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