Saturday Morning Beard Fact

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February 21, 2015

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The cutting of the hair of the beard, which is said to be nourished by the superfluous humours of the stomach, denotes that we ought to cut away vices and sins which are a superfluous growth in us. Hence we shave our beards that we may be purified by innocence and humility and that we may be like the angels, who remain always in the bloom of youth.’

Source: Gulielmus Durandus, Rationale divinorum officiorum, 1459,  taken from Moustaches, Whiskers & Beards, Lucinda Hawksley

 

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