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Note 7: Some useful collections of the patristic and medieval theology of infant baptism are: Albert Michel, Enfants morts sans baptême: Etude doctrinale et documentaire, certitudes et hypothèses (Paris, 1954), J. - Ch. Didier, Faut-il baptiser les enfants?
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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-- Qoique né dans une famille religieuse, on avoit, par accident, oublié de le faire baptiser.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 Various
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Il a donc commande de baptiser tous ceux qui sont siens, au nom du Pere et du Fils et du
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Besides acting the part of pastor, schoolmaster, law-maker, and law-enforcer, he had to become the sympathetic counsellor of all who chose to call upon him; also public registrar of events, baptiser of infants, and medical practitioner.
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St. Remi, baptiser of Clovis, the first Christian king in France, at the end of the fifth century left by will, to various churches, the vineyards which he owned at Reims and Laon, together with the “vilains” employed in their cultivation.
Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines Henry Vizetelly 1857
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Cave, and hence also not the baptiser of St. Kentigern at Culross, as told in the legend of his mother, St. Thenew, or St. Thenuh -- a female saint whose very existence the good Presbyterians of Glasgow had so entirely lost sight of, that centuries ago they unsexed the very name of the church dedicated to her in that city, and came to speak of it under the uncanonical appellation of St. Enoch's.
Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 James Young Simpson 1840
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Sa mère étoit une chrétienne, qui l'avoit fait baptiser à la loi Grégoise (selon le rît des Grecs) "pour lui oster le flair et la senteur que ont ceulx qui ne sont point baptisez."
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Dupé deux fois, il le fut encore par la suite pour un roi de Tunis qu'on lui avoit représenté comme disposé à se faire baptiser.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Il en est ainsi de tous les grands, ils se font baptiser afin qu'ils ne puent point.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III Richard Hakluyt 1584
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The name means 're-baptiser' and was used as an insult by those who saw compulsory baptism as a way of keeping religious belief and loyalty to the governing authorities soldered together.
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