[Verginius Rufus]

My grandmother's great-grandmother was a midwife in an Eastern European village in the mid-19th-century. She was trained to baptize newborns if they were likely to die very soon (unfortunately not an uncommon occurrence). No classes for the parents and no time to summon godparents.

From an online parish record (different location, dated 1815): "Antonius...statim ac de ventre matris egressus susceptaque baptismae sacra in coelum evolavit" = "Anthony...immediately coming forth from his mother's womb and having received the sacred things of baptism flew up to heaven."

(Thanks to FamilySearch.org for making these records available online)

[stylin19a]

thanks for sharing that.

It always bugged me about the parishes.

Christ is the solution. Why do they wait so long to bring us to Him ?