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Also patron of confessors, professors, and theologians.
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He was in demand as a confessor , from a few parishioners, a few neighbouring clergy, a few old students at Lincoln.
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His patronage to confessors is attributed to the large crowds he attracted to the confessionals.
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She and her confessor ran away from her incestuous father, a pagan chieftain.
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Some were in religious orders and acted as confessors, others were lay people.
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Such as Saint Maximus the confessor whose tongue was cut out preventing him from speaking.
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The confessor was murdered and Dymphna was beheaded for refusing to return home.