Word: confessores
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...widow of Antoine le Gras, is a saint." St. Louise de Marillac was born of a noble family in 1591 in Paris. Married to Antoine le Gras, secretary to Queen Marie de Medici, she became a mother at 22, a widow at 34. Thereafter under the guidance of a confessor, who later became St. Vincent de Paul, Mme Le Gras devoted herself to good works. In 1633 she gathered about her four young women whom she trained in caring for the poor. Out of this community grew the Daughters (or Sisters) of Charity-first active, non-contemplative order of women...
...spite of these interruptions, and also in spite of several irritating instances of dragging in the action, this picture of one-of-those women being evangelized and then scandalized by a self-appointed soul-healer, who combines in himself the righteousness of a Father Confessor, the diction of a bishop, the vanity of a mayor, the power of a governor, and the morals of certain other reformers one could mention (but bygones are bygones), is convincingly performed. It is comforting to see that when Joan Crawford and Walter Huston are ordered to enact a "cloudburst of passion," they not only...
...noted not for his affaires with film actresses but for platonic friendships, apparently based on hypersensitive sympathy for the misfortunes of unhappy celebrities. When Barbara La Marr was dying, she summoned Paul Bern to her sickroom. Mabel Normand did the same thing. He became known, jocosely, as "the little confessor of Hollywood." Platonic friendships are even more suspect in Hollywood than elsewhere. Nevertheless Paul Bern's reputation as a kindly, disinterested bachelor was such that even chit-chat writers, who had been attentive to Jean Harlow, saw no possibilities in her three-year acquaintance with Bern...
...young grass widow, a middle-aged baron who was her father, and a preacher whom she made her confessor formally presented themselves before a Copenhagen magistrate last week. The young woman deposed herself to be Fru Else Wille Bang, 32, not domiciled with her husband since seven months after her marriage, for a period (after the separation) a student of singing in Paris, now of no occupation. She wished to impeach herself for the murder of her invalid mother, the Baroness von Dueben, and at the same time arrange for exculpation...
...Wenzel Number Four" is an English allusion to 14th Century King Wenceslaus IV of "Bohemia whose exploits included not only harpooning maidens young and spry but also ordering that his Queen's confessor, the legendary St. John of Nepomuk, should be thrown into the vltava for refusing to reveal to His Majesty something which Her Majesty had confided to the saint at confessional...