In practice, a penitential remained one of the few books that a country priest might have possessed.

As a country priest he led a devout, humble life and did not participate in literary circles.

Wagenar was the son of a country priest from Neuruppin.

You country priests have had it too much your own way for too long.

Most country priests were ignorant men themselves, though in theory they had to be literate.

Yet, to my surprise, a month ago I received a letter from this artless country priest.

The country priests stood straighter now, looked more like men.

Helena sees that her old country priest, to whom she goes for counsel, has even lost his faith.

The film initially makes so much of the quaintly alcoholic country priest that he seems to be the central character.

But these poor country priests were not Fanatics.