Unnamed Minister

When Captain Gualdres and his new bride appear in Gavin Stevens' office to say good-bye, Gualdres refers to the marriage ceremony that has just taken place by saying, "We just leave the padre" (238). Although it's not made explicit, it's extremely likely that Gualdres himself is a Catholic - but if this "padre" is a Catholic priest, this would be the only time in the Yoknapatawpha fictions that Faulkner mentions a local Catholic church. The more probable referent for the man Gualdres calls a "padre" is a Protestant minister, and given the class status of the bride's family, probably an Episcopal one.