... advisor and confessor. As part of her own vision of worship, Tegakoüita performed penances from a repertoire that included fasting, beating herself with switches, and sleeping on a bed of thorns. Tegakoüita’s piety and vow of chastity were captured in an account by Cholenec. This chapter includes excerpts...

.... While ‘almost all’ modern confessors err in the matter of canonical penances, the criticism is particularly directed to regular confessors who serve and dwell in the courts of princes and magnates. Within the context that has been argued for it, the Memoriale Presbiterorum represents...