. The Catholic encyclopedia; an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline, and history of the Catholic Church . water; to the ascent and descent, aswell as to the number of steps this involved, therewas often attached a mystical significance (Isidoreof Se^^lle, De divin. off., II. xxv). These fonts wereeither circular or octagonal in form and rarely hex-agonal or square; a few were in the form of a cross(tiregory of Tours, Mirac, I, xxiv), a tj-pe more com-mon in the East than in the West, while an oc-casional sarcophagus-shaped font was suggested,perhaps by the
. The Catholic encyclopedia; an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline, and history of the Catholic Church . water; to the ascent and descent, aswell as to the number of steps this involved, therewas often attached a mystical significance (Isidoreof Se^^lle, De divin. off., II. xxv). These fonts wereeither circular or octagonal in form and rarely hex-agonal or square; a few were in the form of a cross(tiregory of Tours, Mirac, I, xxiv), a tj-pe more com-mon in the East than in the West, while an oc-casional sarcophagus-shaped font was suggested,perhaps by the allusion to baptism in Romans, \t, 4. In size fonts varied, but as a rule they were largeenough for the simultaneous baptism of a few cate-chumens. Their average depth of less than threefeet points to the continued prevalence of but partialimmersion dorni to the eighth century. Water wasprovided either by natural springs or by pipes lead-ing into the basins, though there are many examplesof its being poured in from above the font, over theheads of the neophytes. Drain pipes conducted thewater into the earth or into a ncarbv stream aftei.
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