. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. cost; in the Gallican Church, at Christmas, as inthe case of King Clovis. Private baptism might be administered at any periodwhenever it was deemed necessary. 2 I 2 LITURGY AND CEREMONIES. On the day set apart for baptism, the chosen catechumens met in thechurch at noon to undergo a final examination (Fig. 177); at midnight theyagain assembled there, the paschal taper and the water were consecrated, andthe officiating priest asked the catechumens if they renounced the devil,the world, and its pomps. They mad
. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. cost; in the Gallican Church, at Christmas, as inthe case of King Clovis. Private baptism might be administered at any periodwhenever it was deemed necessary. 2 I 2 LITURGY AND CEREMONIES. On the day set apart for baptism, the chosen catechumens met in thechurch at noon to undergo a final examination (Fig. 177); at midnight theyagain assembled there, the paschal taper and the water were consecrated, andthe officiating priest asked the catechumens if they renounced the devil,the world, and its pomps. 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 these preliminaries were completed the deacon presented to the priestthe catechumens stripped of their clothing, but covered with a veil. Eachthen stepped into a large vessel of water and was dipped thrice (Fig. 178); ateach immersion the bishop invoked one of the persons of the Holy Trinity, a. 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 prevailed till the sixth century in the Western Church, and tillthe eighth in that of the East. After the immersion the assisting deaconanointed the catechumens forehead with holy oil, and the priest put on himthe chrismal, a flowing white robe which he wore for eight days. Thus clad,and holding lighted tapers, the new Christians went in procession from theplace of baptism to the basilica. Before mass they received the sacramentof confirmation ; they were then given a mixture of honey and milk, a symbolof their entrance into the promised land, that is to say, into the highway ofGospel privileges. Whatever the
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