baptize

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• Since being baptized into the pantheon of America’s most famous serial killers, rumors about the gun-toting housewife’s whereabouts keep conspiracy theorists wondering even today.

• Neighbors told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel that Hogan had been seen offering to baptize people in the canal the evening before her daughters were discovered dead.

• It baptizes a quest for power and privilege in the public sphere predicated on ensuring only certain Americans feel welcome to fully participate in civic life.

• Now, we have new revelations about how they were so worried about Jimmy McCain’s health as a newborn, they had him baptized in the hospital on fears he might not make it out of the maternity ward.

• I knew I was ready to tackle whatever life hurled at me next, baptized in sunshine and smiles.

• She wrote to the pope to express her fear that no priest would baptize her illegitimate baby.

• This was why we resolved, at the time of our arrival, not to baptize any adults unless they were previously well catechized.

• Father Biard went to the afflicted parent of the boy, and asked whether he might, with his consent, baptize the dying child.

• "I baptize thee," broke the silence, time after time, amid the tiny splashes of falling water.

• A well-known politician, who died only recently, was born in the village, and the old rector was called on to baptize him.

• But it was not thought safe to baptize him in Galicia, so he was sent to Bellson, in Berlin, who baptized him in 1846.