Crossword clues for penitents
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Confalon \Con"fa*lon\, n. [F. See Confalon.] (R. C. Ch.) One of a fraternity of seculars, also called Penitents.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of penitent English)
Wikipedia
Penitents is a Barcelona Metro station, named after the Vallcarca i els Penitents neighbourhood, in the Gràcia district of Barcelona.The station is served by line L3.
The station opened in 1985 when the section of line L3 between Lesseps and Montbau stations was inaugurated.
The station is located underneath Avinguda de Vallcarca (formerly known as the Avinguda de l'Hospital Militar), between Carrer del Gòlgota, Barcelona and Carrer d'Anna Piferrer, and can be accessed from entrances in the former and the latter, leading to a single ticket hall. It has twin side platforms that are long.
Usage examples of "penitents".
There were thirteen penitents besides Lemmi, all naked, all there for spiritual cleansing.
Afterward, slick with sweat, the penitents bathed in the lake, some distance from the others, and unlike them, not sporting in the water.
The penitents gathered outdoors in deep twilight, bellies complaining.
With the penitents were singers and drummers, trained in the ceremony.
It asked the Great Spirit to be active within each of them, not only the penitents but the onlookers, bringing them all into harmony with His Wisdom, and thereby with each other, the Earth, the Waters, the Air, and everything living on and in them.
There they found Dkota from camps so far away, they'd traveled several days to get there, bringing their own penitents, and had set up camp a little distance off.
When it was nearly dark, the naked penitents crawled on hands and knees into the sweat lodge, followed by Pastor Morosov and a deacon.
Then one by one the penitents prayedfor harmony with the land, the waters, the air, all living things in and on them, and with Jesus and the Great Spirit.
The penitents were slick with sweat, trickling down their naked bodies till the ground they sat on was mud.
The penitents were so overheated, having baskets of cool water poured on them was no shock at all.
We know well that the devil lays special siege to penitents and fugitives from this world.
Often he knelt to beg God's forgiveness and ask that no more penitents be sent him in his unworthiness, neither from the huts of the ascetic brethren in the vicinity nor from the villages and towns of the world.
But when for a while no one came to confess, he found himself not much better off, and on the other hand when the stream of penitents resumed, he caught himself sinning once more.
Moreover, he made it a rule to treat all penitents not only as brothers, but also with a kind of special deference.
From the surrounding settlements, from Ascalon and from even further away, came seekers of advice and penitents eager to confess.