Bennett, Charles Wesley, 1828-1891 · New York, Phillips · leaf 453
ithites at the ch>se of the ceremony. The suggestion here iscertainly that of sprinkling or pouring. The fresco. Fig. 135, is from the cemetery of San Ponziano, Rome;From San Pon- it IS from the eighth or ninth century. Here the bap-ziano. tisraal scene is re^ieated as to mode, and very similai… … Fig. 135.—A baptism of Christ. From a fresco in San Ponziano, Rome. right hand on the head of Jesus in the performance of the rite,Baptism by as- while the ratifying of the act by the Holy Spirit ispersioa. here, as usual, symbolized by the descending dove. On tiie opjwsite bank, in the background,…
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