Other Ocean facts: 1  At 39 degrees Fahrenheit, the temperature of almost all of the deep ocean is only a few degrees above freezing. 2  The speed of sound in water is 1,435 m/sec - nearly five times faster than the speed of. 3  Bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) are among the largest and fastest marine fish.
Asceticism definition. 1. The manner of life, practices, or principles of an ascetic. 2. The doctrine that a person can attain a high spiritual and moral state by practicing self-denial, self-mortification, and the like. 3. The doctrine that the ascetic life releases the soul from bondage to the body and permits union with the divine.
A Cistercian is a member of the Cistercian Order (/sÉªËstÉrÊâ±Én/ , abbreviated as OCist or SOCist (Latin : (Sacer) Ordo Cisterciensis), a religious order of monks and nuns.he keynote of Cistercian life was a return to literal observance of the Rule of St Benedict. Rejecting the developments the Benedictines had undergone, the monks tried to replicate monastic life exactly as it had been in Saint Benedict's time; indeed in various points they went beyond it in austerity.