| In contrast with the usual evaluations of Celtic penance, Connolly puts forward a theological study of the Irish penitentials that is almost totally positive. |
| On the present festive occasion he emerged from his room, when the blithe bells were going, the picture of misery, in a full suit of Sunday penitentials. |
| She provides a brilliant instance of this elusiveness by interpreting their rigorous penitentials as hope-filled guides to spirituality. |
| In the first sense, the penitentials prescribed permanent or temporary peregrinatio as penance for certain infractions. |
