confessors in English

noun
1
a priest who hears confessions and gives absolution and spiritual counsel.
This is indeed the duty of the priest's confessor or spiritual director, the representative of the tribunal of mercy.
2
a person who avows religious faith in the face of opposition, but does not suffer martyrdom.
However, not only the martyrs but also the confessors bore their tribulations and infirmities with great patience, and have to this day.
3
a person who makes a confession.
He has to wait in the church for the other confessors to finish, which leaves him plenty of time to keep meditating on the wretchedness of his sins.

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1. Apparently, that's what Confessors are for.

2. Also patron of confessors, professors, and theologians.

3. Confessors are an elite Nod tech infantry unit in Command & Conquer: Rivals

4. Confessor The two Confessors were tried in secret hearings and were given the minimum sentence of five years.

5. Capuchins can be found working in soup kitchens and homeless shelters, serving as hospital chaplains or prison ministers, confessors and spiritual directors

6. The Confessors were an order of women first created during the Great War as a means of ascertaining the truth beyond doubt

7. Whereas the guilty Admitter may naturally launch into the details of his admitted guilt, false confessors, by definition, do not have the substance to back up their admissions.

8. Joao and his family left Lisbon on January 8th, 1729, travelling in a cavalcade of more than 200 vehicles coaches, Barouches, chaises, wagons--accompanied by priests and confessors, hundreds of servants and 2,000 household cavalry.

9. The Beatification of Confessors In order to secure Beatification (the most important and difficult step in the process of canonization) the regular procedure is as follows: Choosing of a vice-postulator by the postulator-general of the cause, to promote all the judicial inquiries necessary in places outside of Rome.