Confessor in a sentence

Historians' views are discussed in Stephen Baxter, 'Edward the Confessor and the Succession Question', pp. 77–118, in Mortimer ed., Edward the Confessor, which this section is based on.

Author of more than 25 books, Giovanni was a born confessor and performer whom fans came to know her well from her work, her readings and other live appearances and her years teaching at Virginia Tech and other schools.

Their wrongdoing – and its impact on those they’d wronged – dissipated into a round of applause, without any real attempt to find out whether our confessor had a lick of regret, real insight into their behaviour or any true purpose of redemption at all.

Matsuda went to Sakura TV, a popular tabloid station, and presented himself as an anonymous confessor to everything he knew about Kira and Yotsuba.

A leading theory (among many) suggests that Edward the Confessor, his direct successor, may have arranged the poisoned chalice, but we will never know.

But during her novitiate, Sr. Catherine had visions of Our Lady, shared then only with her confessor and a tribunal that investigated and authenticated them.

After Harthacnut's death, the English throne reverted to the House of Wessex in the person of King Edward the Confessor (reigned 1042–1066).

Another Franciscan was the Swede Lars Skytte, who, under the name pater Laurentius, served as Christina's confessor for eight years.

Cardinal Augustine Bea SJ was his personal confessor.

Christina sent home all her Spanish servants, including her confidant Pimentel and her confessor Guêmes.

Darlington "Ecclesiastical Reform" English Historical Review p. 404 He also was the one bishop that published ecclesiastical legislation during Edward the Confessor's reign, attempting to discipline and reform the clergy.

Edward the Confessor had a palace here, and here the great Earl Godwin was proved guilty by the justice of that age of having encompassed the death of the King's brother.

Finally, on the death of Edward the Confessor in 1066, Harold became king, reuniting the earldom of Wessex with the crown.

Five years later, he and his brother, Edward the Confessor, shared the throne of England, after the death of Harold, Harthacnut’s half brother.

Focus on Saint Maximus as a point of mutual agreement Recently, theological debate about the Filioque has focused on the writings of Maximus the Confessor.

Godwine was probably a native of Sussex, and by the end of Edward the Confessor 's reign a third part of the county was in the hands of his family.

Guide to the Palace of Westminster, p. 25. In the event, neither the planned statues of Norman kings nor the frescoes were executed, and only the stained-glass window portraying Edward the Confessor hints at this theme.

Harthacnut died suddenly in 1042 and was succeeded by Magnus in Denmark and Edward the Confessor in England.

Her confessor, Blessed Raymond, ordered her to eat properly.

Hildegard and about twenty nuns thus moved to the St. Rupertsberg monastery in 1150, where Volmar served as provost, as well as Hildegard's confessor and scribe.