Though churchgoers remain a minority, churches are crowded and across the country adults are getting baptised.
Christ's presence, followed by Christ's absence, impressed him so deeply that he asked to be baptised.
If the secondary school is oversubscribed, priority will be given to baptised Catholic children living in certain local parishes.
This is the skull of the John the Baptist who baptised Jesus Christ.
Over 40% of baptised Catholics are from Latin America and most practise their faith.
It was here that Patrick is said to have baptised Aengus, the son of the King of Munster, in the mid-5th Century.
On Christmas Eve some 38 people were baptised in a single town, Klina.
He married a black woman with deep roots on the South Side, and had his two daughters baptised at Trinity.
He berated Lib Dem MPs for undertaking "the biggest conversion since the Chinese general baptised a whole army with a hosepipe".
But in 1848 Sechele divorced four of the women and was baptised.
Also, the church is beginning to serve its young people far better, so some youngsters now are making the decision to be baptised themselves.
Baptised Caribe Wave 2011, the exercise tested the Tsunami and Other Coastal Hazards Warning System for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (Caribe EWS).
Earlier on Wednesday, he visited Qasr el Yahud - the site on the West Bank of the River Jordan where Israel says Jesus was baptised.
The christening was understood to have been conducted by Father John Caden, a friend of the Blairs, who has baptised all of the prime minister's children.
High King Laoghaire and his attendants (including Erc, who later was baptised as a Christian and would become the first bishop of Slane shortly thereafter) went to confront the interloper.
Mr Wright presided at his wedding and baptised his children.
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But in Malta he will be preaching to the converted -- nearly 98 percent of the island's population are baptised Roman Catholic and identity with the faith is strong.
He has launched a Year of Faith, beginning this month, seeking to bring back to the Church baptised Catholics who have fallen away from the fold during recent decades.
It was in Vienna that Mr Schnittke chose to be baptised a Catholic when, in 1980, he was at last allowed to wander a bit beyond the Soviet Union.
The Code of Cannon Law states that, for a child to be baptised, "there must be a founded hope that the infant will be brought up in the Catholic religion".
If the beliefs and disciplines of the Catholic faith were merely a private concern to the world's 1.2 billion baptised Catholics, the pontiff's remoteness from life's realities might not be of great consequence.
The expedition started on Thursday morning after the Bishop of Hull anointed the marchers with water from the font where William Wilberforce, who was elected as MP for the city in 1780, was baptised.
The cardinals do not have to choose one of their own number - theoretically any baptised male Catholic can be elected pope - but tradition says that they will almost certainly give the job to a cardinal.
In the Richmond case, the new primary school will allocate a third of places to people on the basis of closeness to the school, not on religion, and for the remaining places, priority will be given to baptised Catholics.
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