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Russell Finds Religion

Russell Crowe, man of the cloth? Not quite. But the oft-tempestuous thesp has, at the tender age of 43, found religion.

The Oscar-winning actor is planning on getting baptized at the Byzantine chapel he had built on his Australian farm, and the site of his wedding to Danielle Spencer in 2003.

"I'd like to do it this year," he told Men's Journal of the pending consecration.

Crowe's eldest son, three-year-old Charlie, has already been baptized at the church, and the Gladiator star said he plans on taking the holy water plunge at the same time as his one-year-old.

"Charlie was baptized there. And when Tennyson gets baptized there, I will too."

According to Crowe, it was his sons' baptism that got him thinking about the prospect of his own.

"My mom and dad decided to let my brother and me make our own decisions about God when we got to the right age. I started thinking recently, 'If I believe it is important to baptize my kids, why not me?'

"I do believe there are more important things than what is in the mind of a man," he told the magazine. "There is something much bigger that drives us all. I'm willing to take that leap of faith."

The chapel was built on Crowe's 560-acre farm in New South Wales four years ago, under less than selfless circumstances.

"I needed to convince Danielle she didn't have to travel to Rome to get married like she'd always dreamed of, because I saw all the paperwork involved. So I had to manage that disappointment. I built her a Byzantine chapel of her own...And we use it all the time."

Despite his turn to the light side, Crowe doesn't plan on becoming a shrinking violet anytime soon.

"Look, I call a spade a spade," he said. "I don't deny that. But my intention, for want of a better word, is a certain purity."

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