Shaving throughout time

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Amazing what you can find out there on the web.... Coming to us from the web site 'The Art Of Manliness' I found this very interesting article.

Unique Shaving & Grooming Rituals from History and Around the World | The Art of Manliness

Down in the comments section is a translation of the latin which I copied and pasted below:

Dominus vobiscum.
Oremus, Dilectissimi, Deum Patrem omnipotentem, ut huic Famulo suo N., quem ad juvenitem perducere est aetatem, bendictionis suae dona concedate; ut, sicut exemplo Beati Petri, Principis Apostolorum, ei exteriora, pro Christi amore, sunt attondenda juventutis auspicia, ita praecordiorum divellantur interiorum superflua, ac felicitatis aetermae percipiat incrementa. Per eum qui unus in Trinitate perfecta vivit et gloriatur Deus per imortalia saecula saeculorum. Amen

The Lord be with you.
Let us pray Beloved, to God the Almighty Father, that to this man His own son, N., who is brought to youthful age, having received the gift of His blessings; that to this man, just as from the example of Blessed Peter, the Prince of the Apostles, the exterior auspices of his youth ought to be shaven, in such a way may the surplus of his interior passions be torn away, and may he attain the increase of eternal felicity. Through him who lives and is glorified in perfect Trinity, God through the eternal ages of ages.