Eksempler på confessor

• The nature of our sources may account for this silence : martyrs and confessors, through their sufferings, were purging themselves of their sins in this world.

• But his words also imply the way in which a confessor would claim and assume office as presbyter or deacon.

• Such open families are not necessarily female-dominated, but their fathers are often rendered strategically absent by the father confessor.

• Friars were frequently confessors and the prayers of monks were thought to be particularly powerful.

• He viewed me as somewhat of a confessor, a third party listener with whom he could share his thoughts.

• The reprieves granted to confessors were the last decisions the court was allowed to make.

• In both cases the confessors needed a bishop neither for their own ordination nor, if ordained, to give absolution.

• Even confessors were exhorted to scrutinize the conscience of the sinner in confession as a physician scrutinizes wounds.

• We should notice that he conflates what doctrines do with what their confessors believe or intend that they do.

• Breviaries frequently furnished only the collect, and the celebrants were directed to the common of confessors.

• Approximately one-third of its chants borrow from the venerable offices of major temporal feasts, as well as the common of confessor bishops.

• His office does not seem to have been simply taken over in toto from the common of confessors.

• Marginal rubrics identify these chants as being for confessors.

• Far from providing options of choice throughout the summer, the decisions concerning confessors were the last decisions the court was allowed to make.

• Such was the character of the threat to the social fabric of absolution by the confessors.