penitents

The great thing Christ eyes in penitents is their eyeing him in their repentance.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721

Certain penitents, in a show of incredible remorse (absurd stupidity? faith?), have themselves nailed to crosses and bake under the sun on Good Friday in imitation of Christ.

Archive 2003-04-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2003

Certain penitents, in a show of incredible remorse (absurd stupidity? faith?), have themselves nailed to crosses and bake under the sun on Good Friday in imitation of Christ.

notes from the peanut gallery Dean Francis Alfar 2003

For, as great wickedness before conversion keeps not true penitents from the benefits of God's grace, so neither should it keep professing ones from church-fellowship.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

After confessing to a human mediator — "the wise one, in whose hands lay the books, the paintings" — the penitents were then instructed to perform further rites such as fasting or passing reeds through their tongue, ear, or penis. 37 The Nahuas called this rite of confession neyolmelahualiztli, "straightening one's heart," a practice that restored internal equilibrium by returning the heart to its proper place.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

Among his penitents was a beautiful young girl, about nineteen years old.

The Priest, The Woman And The Confessional Father Chiniquy

Next day, appropriate sermons in the churches, processions in the afternoon, in which wax figures of Christ and the Virgin Mary were carried by men got up in fancy dresses as soldiers and centurions, and so called penitents, walking covered with black shrouds and veils, with small round holes to look through, or in the yellow dress and extinguisher cap, both with flames and devils painted on them.

Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

A practice crept in of posing in church as penitents, that is, of kneeling, on all days alike.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

Tertullian gives a very striking account of the course pursued by those called penitents about that period.

The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution 1854

She writes that in the 11th Century there were religious wierdos known as penitents who wrote long rule books about every single sex act possible and the corresponding punishment you should incure for doing it.

Blogtimore, Hon 2009