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was often carried [handwritten: xxxx] on outside of [handwritten: xxxx] churches-witness the baptisteries of [handwritten: xxxx] this period- and while the [handwritten: xx] rite of Epiphany might be celebrated where there existed water, [handwritten: 524] both ceremonies imply the existence of an adjacent church, [handwritten: from which the procession was to our building would have started and 525] There was a basilica, probably the episcopal one, on the west side of the [handwritten: xxxxxx] peninsula. There was a baptistery-[handwritten: baptismal font] on the south side of this basilica [handwritten: 526] The date of this basilica and its baptistery are not known. This may have been the church connected with our building; [handwritten: probably, however, before the baptismal font was built.] So far we have considered our building in relation to [handwritten: x] the ceremonies of baptism, Epiphany, and dedication. We must, also, consider our building in the light of a need for a bath with the dual function of bathing and baptizing, of the general relation between baths and baptisteries and of the possibility of the existence of similar buildings.
"In the first place, there were not in the time of our building a [handwritten: n] sss sufficient number of baptisteries. Gregory Nazianus recognizes but does not [handwritten: xxxxx] condone the fact that some people use the [handwritten: xxxxx] [handwritten: xx] execuse of a long journey by sea or land to postpone baptism." [handwritten: 527] J. Lassus in connection with a short survey of baptisteries writes,"Il faut remarquer, par ailleurs, que si dans quelques villages on trouve deux baptistères, le plus grand nombre des églises, même en Syrie du Nord, ne semble pas en comporter du tout." He adds after a little, "Il n'est peut-être pas impossible
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