Word: baptisme
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...Radcliffe Swim Team conducted another baptism of fire last night against Northeastern, placing first in every event of the meet...
...Benitez, the recently retired bullfight star, had promised to marry his girl friend if she bore him a son? Not exactly. It was undeniable that pretty, young Marline Rayasse last month did bear him a son, Manuel II (they also have a four-year-old daughter). At the baptism, the 36-year-old ex-matador said that the birth of his son "has persuaded me that I must marry." As to the date, however, he was skittish. "If one morning when I get up," he said, "I have mischievous ideas and she feels the same, we will...
Seamus Malin, assistant Varsity Soccer Coach, switched goaltenders for the second half, replacing Zurkow with Bill Bryan. "(Zurkow) played a good game, but I wanted to give Bryan some playing time," Malin said. "It was a real baptism of fire...
...become Mormon priests. Although there is no sign that the day is imminent, Harold Lee, the "revelator," could theoretically receive the word from God any time. Meanwhile, he advises blacks to become Mormons anyway. Even if they cannot attain the highest privileges, he says, they will "get more by baptism into the true church than they would otherwise...
This rare form of civil baptism dates back to 1790 in Strasbourg, where the first recorded ceremony took place amid the fervor of the French Revolution. Recent years have seen a sporadic revival of the practice particularly among atheistic socialists like the parents in last week's ceremony, Jacques Destable, 27, and his wife Christine, 22. Writing in the Morlaix birth registry, the Destables charged the godparents with the responsibility, if necessary, of raising their daughter Juliette "solely in the cult of reason, honesty, the love of labor and of the republic...