Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers & Son · leaf 279
omps. They made answer, Yes. The priest then requiredof them a profession of Christian faith, carefully prepared beforehand, afterwhich they underwent a short examination on the articles of the Creed.When these preliminaries were completed the deacon presented to the priestthe catechumens stripped… … Fig. 177— Exorcism of a catechumen by four of the clergy, who are applying the cross to him todrive the devil out of his body, prior to his baptism.—From a bas-relief of the Fourth or FifthCentury, found at Perouse. Paciaudi, De Sacris Christianorum Balneis: Venitiis, 1750,4to. custom that…
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