Baptism of Jesus | Baptism of Christ on the 12th-century baptismal font at St Bartholomew's Church, Liège.

The Dura-Europos church from 235 AD has a special room dedicated for baptisms with a large baptismal font.

Water is poured on the head of an infant held over the baptismal font of a Catholic church

It is a naval tradition to baptize children using the ship's bell as a baptismal font and to engrave their names of the children on the naval bell afterwards.

The chancel of United Methodist churches usually features a lectern and baptismal font on one side of the altar table and a pulpit on the other side.

Throughout the 7th century, Jews were flogged, executed, had their property confiscated, were subjected to ruinous taxes, forbidden to trade and, at times, dragged to the baptismal font.

The three crowns of East Anglia appear, carved in stone, on the baptismal font ( c. 1400 ) in the parish church of Saxmundham, in Suffolk.

Includes original furniture, baptismal font, encaustic tile floor in choir, elaborate rood screen, linen-fold paneling, and parquet oak floor in sanctuary.

In some traditions the base of the candle may be ritually immersed in the baptismal font before proceeding with the remainder of the service.

After the Easter season, it is frequently placed near the baptismal font.

Before 1955, the option existed of blessing the baptismal font on the Vigil of Pentecost, and this was the only time the Paschal candle would be lit at services after Ascension.

The original baptismal font of hammered copper on a turned wood base has been returned to the church, as has the bell wheel used by the Ohlones during the sacred parts of the Mass.

* Piazza Broletto, with a Verona marble baptismal font dating to the 14th century.

In 1941, she completed oil panels on the subject of the seven sacraments for the baptismal font at St. Andrew's, South Croydon.

She designed baptismal rolls for the wall behind the font in 1948 and 1962.

* The Seven Sacraments ; baptismal font panels, St. Andrew's, Croydon

It houses an octagonal baptismal font from the 7th or 8th century, with the carved name of the 3rd bishop of Adria, Bono.

The oil that is used to anoint the catechumens before baptism is simple olive oil which is blessed by the priest immediately before he pours it into the baptismal font.

Adherents of Mormonism believe that the molten sea in Solomon's Temple was a baptismal font.

Every temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) contains a baptismal font on twelve oxen that is modeled after the molten sea.

Image: Font_At_Salisbury. jpg | The old baptismal font.

Noteworthy are a baptismal font ( 12th century ) and the Madonna di Capo Colonna, the icon of the Black Madonna which, according to the tradition, was brought from East in the first years of the Christian era.

The end of the nineteenth and the early twentieth century were a high point in craftsmanship and it shows here, particularly in the carved wood and stained glass, with contributions from Augustus Welby Pugin such as the baptismal font that dates from 1853.

From the same epoch is the hexagonal baptismal font, with panels of the Histories of St. John the Baptist, by Giovanni d ' Agostino.

Elizabeth was placed in Edward's household and carried the chrisom, or baptismal cloth, at his christening.

The baptismal register, on 11 October lists him as being " born yesterday ", but since days were often considered to begin at sunset, this could have meant either 9 or 10 October.

Small timber churches are suggested at Lincoln and Silchester and baptismal fonts have been found at Icklingham and the Saxon Shore Fort at Richborough.

The renewal of baptismal promises by those receiving the sacrament in the Western Catholic Church is incidental to the rite and not essentially different from the solemn renewal of their baptismal promises that is asked of all members of this Church each year at the Easter Vigil service.

The baptismal register at St Mary Woolnoth carries this entry: " Thomas, son of Francis Kydd, Citizen and Writer of the Courte Letter of London ".

The baptismal site is marked by the Texas Historical Commission as located on Farm to Market Road 150 at Sam Houston Road.

Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria ( who was given the Latin baptismal name of Maria Ludovica Leopoldina Francisca Theresa Josepha Lucia ) was born at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna on 12 December 1791 to Archduke Francis of Austria and his second wife, Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily.

Legends claim that even the lily itself appeared at the baptismal ceremony as a gift of blessing in an apparition of the blessed Virgin Mary.

Bede implies that in the time of Augustine of Canterbury, British churches used a baptismal rite that was in some way at variance with the Roman practice.

Another variation says a lily appeared at Clovis ' baptismal ceremony as a gift of blessing from an apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary, who is often associated with the flower.

A study of the baptismal records of the Jesuits at Osage Mission reveals that several white or mixed white and Osage families lived in or near Little Town before the Civil War.

Also, in the initial newspaper article released by Ramón Corral in Sonora's official State newspaper La Constitución ( Corral, 1887 ), José Maria Leiva's father is identified as Fernando Leiva ( born about 1816 at Huirivis, Sonora ), and his mother as Juana Maria Peres ( born about 1817 at Potam, Sonora ), as does the baptismal record.

At her baptismal ceremony, contemporaries wrote that Charles, despite his best efforts, appeared upset at the child's sex.

The church at Holt probably dates from the twelfth century and has an ancient baptismal font.

However, as Stewart Pollens points out ( see References below ), this person cannot be Bartolomeo Cristofori, since the census records an age of 13, whereas Cristofori according to his baptismal record would have been 25 at the time.

He became a Christian in a ceremony at Reims at Christmas 496 ; the traditional date of the battle of Tolbiac has been established to accord with this firmly attested baptismal date, by accepting as literal truth Gregory's account which has a clear parallel with the conversion of Constantine I, connected by Lactantius with the equally conclusive Battle of the Milvian Bridge.

Erasmus was his baptismal name, given after St. Erasmus of Formiae.

* The Romanesque tower of St Pierre church and its baptismal fonts also date from the Middle Ages.

The interior includes a baptismal font from 1175, the reliquary shrine of St. Perpetua and her slave Felicitas, and a high altar with a crucifix from 1352.

However, no baptismal record exists in St. Stephen's Catholic Church in Glenwood Springs or the Annunciation Catholic Church in nearby Leadville, Colorado.

* St. James ' Church (~ 1400 ), with baptismal font designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen ; crypt with sarcophagi of the reigning princes ; organ by Friedrich Ladegast

The flag of St Edmund consists of three gold crowns on a field of blue ( Azure, three crowns Or ), and features as the three crowns of East Anglia, on the baptismal font ( c. 1400 ) in Saxmundham's parish church in Suffolk, UK.

* Catholic St. Michael's Church, built in a classicist style in 1847, is sightworthy because of several masterpieces of art, e. g. a baroque altar and a baptismal font dating from 1700.

His second sons were twins, based on an entry to the baptismal records of St. Lawrence, Stratford sub Castle, Salisbury, Wilts records, Thomas Pitt, 1st Earl of Londonderry and William.

The local church ( St. Nicholas ) is a red brick building, containing an unusual red brick baptismal font which has been used for many christenings.

* Parish Church of Santa Maria Assunta, standing on the site of the baptismal chapel dedicated to St. John the Baptist, which was replaced after the 11th century by the Romanesque church.

He had two sisters, Elizabeth ( baptised 1812 ) and Mary ( baptised 1819 ); no other siblings are recorded in St Editha's baptismal register.

He created several utilitant items over the next several years including a console table ( 1759 ), the altar to the Augustinerkirche, Würzburg ( 1760 ), the altar and baptismal font to the Stadtpfarrkirche of St Maria and St Regiswindis, Gerolzhofen, Schweinfurt.

There was an early legend associated with St. Remigius known as the Legend of the Baptism of Moribund Pagan, according to which a dying pagan asked for baptism at the hands of St. Remigius, but when it was found that there was no Oil of the Catechumens or sacred Chrism available for the proper administration of the baptismal ceremony, St. Remigius ordered two empty vials be placed on an altar and as he prayed before them the two vials miraculously filled respectively with the necessary Oil of the Catechumens and Chrism.

According to her baptismal records at St. Francois Xavier, Manitoba, Josèphté was born in about 1807.

On March 2, 1835, according to the St. Francois Xavier Catholic Church marriage records: Guillaume Sayer, son of John Sayer and an Ojibwe woman named Marguerite, married Josèphté Frobisher, age about 28 years according to her baptismal record of the same day, the daughter of Alexander Frobisher and Marguerite, a Cree woman.

It houses a precious polyptych by Pere Vall, depicting St. Anne, the Virgin and St. Amador, and a 15th-century baptismal font.