The confessor will hear confessions in English and French. 这个神父可以听取用英语和法语做的忏悔。
It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor. 【谚】蠢羊才向狼忏悔。
Many year ago a group of confessor build this church. 很多年以前,一群不畏受难的基督徒修建了这座教堂。
confessor
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a priest who hears confession and gives absolution
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someone who confesses (discloses information damaging to themselves)
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Confessor \Con*fess"or\ (?; 277), n. [OF. confessor, F. confesseur, fr. L. & LL. confessor.] 1. One who confesses; one who acknowledges a fault, or the truth of a charge, at the risk of suffering; specifically, one who confesses himself a follower of Christ and endures persecution for his faith.
He who dies for religion is a martyr; he who suffers for it is a confessor. --Latham.
Our religion which hath been sealed with the blood of so many martyrs and confessors. --Bacon.
2. A priest who hears the confessions of others and is authorized to grant them absolution.
But in Pere Lachaise cemetery, named for Louis XIV's confessor, one thing is sure: This is not Graceland and the people who come to see Morrison's grave aren't Elvis fans.
But the excuses flow out and we are expected to take on the role of confessor for a slick crook.
Born in 1552, de Rojas devoted his life to work among the poor and to promoting devotion to the Virgin Mary, as well as being confessor to the Spanish royal family.
Francis Cybula, the president's chaplain and confessor since his days as a youthful trade union leader, is also not expected to survive. In the meantime, Walesa seems to reckon he can do better himself - at least in the former capacity.
He sacked his Jesuit confessor, Father Valentino Sanchez, in an argument over Opus. These criticisms might seem the natural response to a movement which has the Pope's ear and powerful friends in the Vatican.
The marriage gets off to a good start but is soon threatened by Ellen's inability to trust her own instincts in matters sexual, and her blind obedience to her Jesuit confessor.