Middle Elementary
Baptized
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Baptize means to dip, bathe, or wash.

A child that is baptized has gone through a religious ceremony. In Shakespeare’s time, babies were baptized when they were 2 or 3 days old.

It’s a very special religious service for a child. Friends and family will sometimes come to celebrate the baptism.

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Text: Gabrielle Pasternak
Image: L'Art de bien Vivre et de bien Mourir,
Paris 1492