Confession money also confession cross, confession guilder and similar (penitent’s fee)

In former times, in the Catholic and Lutheran churches, a voluntary, but now customary, payment in cash to the priest, originally especially after Easter confession (Easter confession: personal, penitent confession of guilt in words before the clergyman) and therefore also called Easter penny and Easter groschen. – Even those who did not confess paid the confession money as a parishioner, which in some areas was often enough the basis of the income of a Lutheran pastor until the end of the 19th century. – See Ablassgeld, Abtrag, Amtsgeld, Annaten, Denkgeld, Dispensationsgeld, Läutegeld, Kathedralgeld, Kirchgeld, Memoriengeld, Messegeld, Obvention, Opfergeld, Palliengeld, Peterspfennig, Pönalgeld, Prokurationsgeld, Stolgeld.

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