0 relating to the Christian ceremony of baptism (= when a person has water put on them to show that they have become a member of the Christian Church):
a baptismal certificate
the baptismal ceremony
The reason why these three villages were chosen is that they have a computer database containing all the information from the baptismal, marriage and death registers.
However, the author also attempts a cultural anthropological interpretation of both the controversy on the lapsed, and that of rebaptism, drawing on his earlier work on the baptismal controversy alone.
Alternatively, a more concealed method may have been intended that indirectly imparts a relationship between rainwater and consecrated baptismal water.
This term becomes more common in the rest of the baptismal register soon after 1900.
The final ecclesiastical conclusion, and homage, is an understated view of a columned wall, pulpit and baptismal font.
Retrospectively the energetic charge of that baptismal moment strikes me as being the all-enveloping mega-blast of consumerist culture.
The main sources analysed for this section were baptismal registers and communion rolls.
A month-lag of the national baptismal data makes no difference to the correlation with foundling admissions.
