A gyónás szentsége
Summary
Nightfall drapes a forgotten Carpathian hamlet in velvet shadows when a gaunt stranger, boots still slick with another man’s blood, shoulders through Matthias Blood’s warped oak door. The priest, candle in one trembling hand, absorbs a confession that detonates the hush: a knife thrust in jealous frenzy, a body cooling in the rye fields, a soul already curdling with regret. At dawn the corpse is found and gossip ricochets faster than church bells; Matthias’s own brother Imre, absent from prayers and reeking of resentment, is shackled in iron. The sacramental seal clamps the priest’s mouth while the gallows loom for the boy he rocked through fevers. Matthias paces the nave, fingering a rosary until beads bruise skin, listening to townsmen howl for blood. Imre’s betrothed, a wisp in mourning black, refuses the verdict; she combs the marketplace, the riverbank, the tavern porch, until she recognizes the prowler who slipped from the rectory that fatal dusk. Her plea to the prosecutor is a trembling flame against the wind of certainty; the real murderer is dragged, weeping confession, into daylight. Imre walks free, the noose unknotted, the priest’s vow intact, yet Matthias’s eyes remain hollow: salvation bought by love, not by faith alone.
Synopsis
One evening, an upset man broke into the house of Matthias Blood, a rural Catholic priest. He wants to confess urgently. It turns out that murder burdens his soul, which he just committed. The murder is soon discovered in the town, and the priest's younger brother, Imre, is also suspected. The priest is faced with an unsolvable problem of conscience: either betraying the sanctity of confession and revealing the real killer, or idly looking at the condemnation of his innocent brother. Faith in God helps you through crisis days. The young man is sentenced to death, but his bride, who is convinced of her innocence, does not rest on her verdict. His female instincts and love are traced. He searches for the man he saw coming out of the rectory on the day of the murder, and he manages to persuade the prosecutor to interrogate him as well.so the innocent young man is saved. The soul of the priest can rest, for he did not cause the death of his beloved brother by preserving his vow of consecration, the sacrament of confession.
