"Baptismal font" Quotes from Famous Books
... and 11th prophecies an appropriate Tract is sung by the choir. Formerly some or all of these prophecies were said in Greek as well as in Latin. (See Cancellieri, Funz. d. Set. S. Sec. 4, Martene T. 3. p. 148.). These lesson are recited even where there is no baptismal font, as at the Sixtine chapel. After them follow in S. John Lateran's and other churches the blessing of the font, and in some of them administration ... — The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome • Charles Michael Baggs |