catechumen

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Later, recounting his fruitless sessions with his hopeless catechumen, Father Mowbray tells the matriarch how he tried to explain to Mottram the concept of papal infallibility:

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 22, 2026

Thereupon she called her brother to her, and that catechumen, and spoke to them, saying: Stand fast in the faith, and love you all one another; and be not offended because of our passion.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Born of heathen parents, he turned to Christ and became a catechumen.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had been a catechumen before he had joined the Manicheans.

From Life of Saint Monica by Forbes, F. A. (Frances Alice)

A catechumen himself, and knowing but little of the great truths of Christianity, he was easily deceived by Eusebius' story and hastened to take his advice.

From Saint Athanasius The Father of Orthodoxy by Forbes, F. A. (Frances Alice)