Word: confessore
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...Joseph Floyd, head of an old English Roman Catholic family in the '90s, thought he had a vocation for the priesthood. He married only because his confessor told him it was his duty to continue his line. There was no love between Sir Joseph and his pretty young wife- when she was seduced by the fascinating, Protestant Lord Charles Craddock his distaste for her turned to horrified hate. But he took her back, again on advice of his confessor, on condition that she should never see her illegitimate daughter. Then he made her the mother of four children...
...Jesuits at Rome there had come and yanked the ancient bellpull a decently dressed youth who announced himself as Signor De Angelis. He must, he said, he must make an important confession to good Father Tacchi-Venturi. The porter, rubbing sleepy eyes, told the youth that his desired confessor was immersed in study, could not be disturbed. Next day Signor De Angelis returned, yanked the bell still more violently, and prevailed upon the porter to usher him into the Jesuit's study...
...Medieval "trial by ordeal" was administered to persons of every class, from queens to scullery maids. Thus Queen Emma, mother of Edward the Confessor, walked barefooted and unharmed over nine red hot ploughshares to prove that she had not committed adultery with the holy Alwyn, Bishop of Winchester. Women suspected of being witches were stripped naked and "cross bound" (the right thumb being tied to the left toe, and the left thumb to the right toe), whereupon they were thrown into water, and sank if innocent. British humanitarian, Archbishop Hincmar, dates from the ninth century the notable reform...
...form of Roman Catholic confession is this : The penitent, kneeling at the confessor's feet, says : "Pray, Father, bless me, for I have sinned." The priest says : "The Lord be in thy heart and on thy lips, that thou mayest truly and humbly confess thy sins, in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." Penitent: "I confess to Almighty God, to blessed Mary ever Virgin, [tells of sins committed since last confession]. . . . For these and all my other sins which I can not now remember I am heartily sorry ; I purpose amendment...
...aisle to the high altar where the Pro-Grand Master received an offering of gold from the Almoner and presented it to the Dean, who dedicated it. Then sounded a joyous fanfare of trumpets and the procession re-formed and wound its way to the Chapel of Edward the Confessor, patron of the Order, to lay the gold on the altar there. The Dean delivered himself of a brief address and the choir sang the 68th Psalm to a harmonized Gregorian chant. The Order then marched in solemn procession around the Abbey and with the laying of a wreath...