Confession

The name asked for by U.J.B. of the Catholic priest, who, sooner than break the seal of confession, suffered death, is John of Nepomuc, Canon of Prague. By order of the Emperor Wenceslas, he was thrown off a bridge into the Muldaw, because he would not tell that profligate prince the confession of his religious empress. This holy man is honoured as St. John Nepomucen on the 16th of May, in the kalendar of Saints. [U.J.B., if desirous of further particulars respecting St. John Nepomuc, may consult Mrs. Jameson's interesting *Legends of the Monastic Orders*, pp. 214. 217.—ED.]