soutane

When one of them opted for the ecclesiastical state, this involved further cost: a soutane (38l.), a retreat (9l.), and even lettres de tonsure (2l.

He is then asked by which name he wishes to be called and led to a robing room, where his white silk soutane is waiting.

His face had broadened with age to the point that I hardly recognized him from his photographs taken more than forty-five years ago when he was very slim and dressed in his soutane leading a choir or standing with children after a folkloric dance.

It is very hot this evening and I decide to strip off my red- piped black soutane and sash using Mgr Peter's generous girth - I hope he will forgive me - to cover the operation.

The beggars vanished; only a priest in a torn soutane still whined for charity.

The soutane, the chasuble, the priest's ascending the steps before the altar, his intonations in Latin, in the name of and in lie u of the faithful, created a sense of security, the feeling that there is something in reserve, something to fall back on as a last resort; that they, the priestly caste, do this "for us." Men have a strong need for authority, and I believe this need was unusually strong in me; when the clergy took off their priestly robes after Vatican II, I felt that something was lacking.

With his rather shabby soutane and heavy brogues, his somewhat rustic appearance alone would have denied the fact, had not his mores been as unimpeachable as was his manner toward the intellectuals and aristos of his flock.

Against this background of terror, Father Aristide in his white soutane stands out as a figure of exemplary courage, holding the junta and its members personally and politically responsible for what he calls "the civil war' in Jean-Rabel and castigating the Catholic hierarchy for its complicity.

And there in his purple-edged soutane and biretta, his voice stirring as the neigh of a war-horse in battle, his keen blue-grey eyes flashing back the people's own enthusiasm and love, he would boldly tell them of their God-given right to the first-fruits of the land they tilled, and of his own readiness to testify if needs be with his life, to the justice of their cause.

There is a photo of the priest sprawled on the gym floor, clad in his white soutane while his blood pooled beneath him.

(46) Depending on any number of concurrent visual signs, the image could be read by some (though probably not by all) in the audience in this way, and a certain portion of these could take added offense, or at least become uncomfortable, at imagining an altar desecrated by the obviously farcical behavior of the "table scene." This interpretation is most apposite historically, of course, for the original, three-act version of the play in 1664, when Tartuffe was indeed dressed as a "fourbe en soutane" (rogue in a cassock).