The Surprising Medieval Practice of “Baptism by Desire” In the annals of Church history, there are practices that today seem shocking, even incomprehensible. One of them is the so-called “baptism of the dead,” a rare and controversial sacrament that, at certain points in the Middle Ages, was administered to corpses. How did …
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