Madame Devour. Only Nuns Model of the Month

There was a time when people came to me believing I could take their sins away, and for years I believed it too. Soldiers, widows, merchants, and respectable men and women arrived after dark with burdens they could not carry in public. I welcomed them with patience, poured wine, held trembling hands, listened without interruption, and never judged. The rite was old: confession, prayer, then a ceremonial meal symbolising the burden passing into me. At first it was faith alone, but soon I sensed…

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