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Example sentences for: baptism

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The tradition is connected to the baptism of St. John, and throughout Mexico, it is common to see water fights on this day, with buckets of water thrown on friends and family.
The most avid practitioners are Mormons, who believe that ancestors can be saved through posthumous baptism and have established 3,200 genealogy libraries around the world to encourage conversions.
As the explorer Ernest Giles put it, the explorer's experience is a “baptism worse than that of fire—the baptism of no water.”
The Amish allow a period of freedom before baptism, during which young people drink, take drugs, and use machinery and electricity.
A gossip was a sponsor at a baptism.