baptize

Miraculous moments in the story, such as water welling from a rock where Patrick later baptizes people, play out in a quiet tone.

Catholicism is the faith I was baptized in, the one I embraced as a teen and that’s the bedrock for my moral code of comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.

He has long denied being a Satan worshipper, as some critics insisted, and he once told an interviewer he was a baptized Christian.

“As a missionary, we didn’t have to receive special permission from somebody in order to baptize an undocumented individual,” she recalled.

To this day, at the start of every new season in Statesboro, any new players or coaches are “baptized” in its magical waters.