Word: confessore
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...Apocalypse spaces there is a bottom band on which animals are painted in pairs facing a tree on a red background. Only three pairs remain: " Reynder and Ro; Wild Ass and Tarn Ass; Dromedary and Kameyl." Some of the Abbey pictures were painted in the time of Edward the Confessor (1050), some in that of Richard II (1377), probably by brothers of the monastic orders...
...chairman of the Committee on the Reception of Foreign Students of the Class of 1925 announced last night the election of the following Sophomores to the committee: Tung Liang Chang of Peking, China; Patricio Vanenzuela Confessor of Manilla, P. I.; Kyung Duck Har of Chunju, Korea; Unbay Hsu of Peking, China; Jorge Manuel Morales of Caguas, Porto Rico; and Luis Rechani-Agrait of Aguas Buenas, Porto Rico...
...When only thirteen years old, Henry led the procession which bore the coffin of one of the greatest saints of that time, Beckett, to interment in the Abbey in 1213. Fifty years later, Henry III again led a procession which was to bury another great saint, Edward the Confessor The shrine in which he was then buried is still standing in its original place...
...thrifty." The custom is one of great antiquity, and has been deemed to have arisen, perhaps without much authority, in a pun on the founder's name. Aiguille is the Erench for needle, and fill for thread, and the two together have certainly some resemblance to Egglesfield, the confessor of Queen Phillipa, who was the founder of the College. Possibly four or five centuries ago the pronunciation may have been more closely assimilated. Quaint ceremonies, such as those mentioned above, are interesting and pretty in themselves, and provide a happy link with the history of the past.- (Oxford Review...
...took up with a Father Confessor...