On Monday he baptized in jail a catechumen named Rogatianus. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
I resolved, therefore, to become a catechumen in the Catholic. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler] Reference
"Martin, yet a catechumen, hath clothed Me with this garment.". From Wordnik.com. [Stories of the Saints by Candle-Light] Reference
He was inscribed as a catechumen in infancy, but was not baptized. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-08-24] Reference
Basil, then, (it would appear,) as Gregory, but a catechumen of the. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
Hence Ambrose says of Valentinian, who died while yet a catechumen. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference
This was my second year attending, but last year I was a catechumen. From Wordnik.com. [Wyoming Youth Retreat 2007] Reference
Perpetua was here received by Rusticus, a catechumen, who attended her. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
If he shall answer you, 'I am a catechumen;' he is anointed but not yet baptized. From Wordnik.com. [Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy] Reference
VietCatholic news: Pope's speech distorted, catechumen, dissident bloggers arrested. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-09-01] Reference
Lugo remained a catechumen; baptism would have laid inconvenient obligations on him. From Wordnik.com. [The Boat of a Million Years]
Mathetes was possibly a catechumen of St. Paul or of one of the apostle's associates. From Wordnik.com. [ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus] Reference
A person was initiated among the Christians as soon as he was dipped; until then he was only a catechumen. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
But if he has answered 'I am not;' then put this question to him, 'Are you a catechumen, or one of the faith?'. From Wordnik.com. [Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy] Reference
Over time her meekness, humility and prayers transformed Patricius, who became a catechumen, and her mother-in-law. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-08-24] Reference
At the age of 10 he became a catechumen and at 15 he joined the army, serving under the emperors Constantius and Julian. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-11-01] Reference
I was still a novice in thy true love, a catechumen keeping holiday at the villa, with Alypius, a catechumen like myself. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler] Reference
"Three-and-twenty," I said sententiously, like a catechumen responding to the questions supposed to be addressed to "N or M.". From Wordnik.com. [She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History.] Reference
And the Song of Songs puts me in mind of an embarrassing incident that occurred a few years back when I was still a catechumen. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
St. Seleucus; he was only a catechumen, though highly esteemed by the faithful for his many great virtues, and he was just then come to. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
Mr Tremayne understood the drift of his catechumen. From Wordnik.com. [Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada] Reference
In the midst of that august assembly he, the catechumen, is as a little child. From Wordnik.com. [Saint Athanasius The Father of Orthodoxy] Reference
And I was then but uninstructed in Thy true love; a catechumen spending my leisure with. From Wordnik.com. [On Prayer and The Contemplative Life] Reference
From 374 to 383, he was a Manichæan catechumen, for although his mother, Monnica, was a. From Wordnik.com. [A Source Book for Ancient Church History] Reference
From that day forth he became a catechumen and the protector and friend of the Christians. From Wordnik.com. [Saint Athanasius The Father of Orthodoxy] Reference
He then had recourse to another means of escape, urging that he was only a catechumen and could not lawfully be elected a bishop. From Wordnik.com. [Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History] Reference
They were used principally in baptism, and were long kept secret from the catechumen until just before that rite was administered. From Wordnik.com. [A Source Book for Ancient Church History] Reference
He made no converts while a prisoner, but he baptized a Huron catechumen at the stake, to the great fury of the surrounding Iroquois. From Wordnik.com. [The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century] Reference
In the beginning the catechumen schools were for adults only, but afterward children were admitted, and reading and writing were taught. From Wordnik.com. [History of Education] Reference
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