But for many a year yet to come the tapers will burn before the high altar, the Host will be elevated, the incense diffuse its fragrance, the confessionals be open to receive the penitents.
It was a frightful sight, the spectacle presented by the mob around these confessionals crowding to the quarry of impunity for crime.
Do you see these confessionalsdecorated with the armorial bearings of the Holy Father?
Those papal penitentiaries in the confessionals emblazoned with the pontifical arms, those new dealers in merchandise in the Temple dare to sell for cash patents of salvation!
There are three of those very terrible places called confessionals at St. Augustine's, and one day not so long since we visited all of them.
The two confessionals described are contiguous to a passage at the rear of the church; the third we are now coming to is near one of the subsidiary altars, nod looks specifically snug.
Distributed around the whole basilica are confessionals for every Christian tongue.
Confessionals for different languages are placed here as in St. Peter's.
But, on the other hand, the priests worked hard and earnestly, services were frequent and well attended, the confessionals crowded, and the communions numerous.
Distantly akin to this were cases in which laymen would secrete themselves in confessionals and listen to confessions, whether from prurient motives, or through jealousy, or to obtain opportunities for seduction.
To those who sealed the confessionals of the said crusade and jubilee, the sum of six livres Tournois, this 6 liv.
To William Perolle, for having carried some confessionals to Cluriac, the sum of twelve sols Tournois; this 12s.
To Master Guillaume de Villano, notary, for having signed and filled up the confessionals and commissions, and having made the other acts of the said crusade, the sum of ten livres Tournois; this 10 liv.
Bishops and priests speaking twenty-eight different languages had applied to the cardinal vicar for permission to say mass, and confessionals for confessors speaking eighteen languages are provided in St. Peter's.
See, further on, the confessionals ranged around the southern transept; the inscriptions they bear notify you that there are penitentiaries and confessors who speak all the principal languages of Europe, including that of Greece.
It was not strange that people of alt ranks, and especially of the highest ranks, crowded to the confessionals in the Jesuit temples; for from those confessionals none went discontented away.
Altars, crosses, and confessionals confront you wherever you go in this great cathedral; also, pictures adorn the walls where there is no sculpture.
In one of the wings of this building there are eleven confessionals for strangers, and inscriptions indicating the nationality or language.
That the Romish confessionals are sinks of unparalleled corruption, seduction, and the most revolting impurities, is but too well understood in Papal countries.
Mazzini reminded them that from those confessionals had come at all events words of comfort to their mothers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "confessionals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
