catechumen

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Since then, there has been constant flow of new inquirers and people preparing to be baptised, known as catechumens.

From BBC • May 24, 2025

There were apprehended the young catechumens, Revocatus and Felicity his fellow servant, Saturninus and Secundulus.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2019

Schwarz's catechumens filed into the auditorium, their number increasing as the week went on.

From Time Magazine Archive

The first regular catechisms seem to have grown out of the usual oral teaching of catechumens, and to have been compiled in the 8th and 9th centuries.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

They instructed female catechumens in the first principles of the new religion; they prepared them for baptism, and by their attendance disarmed inimical criticism when this sacrament was administered to women.

From Women of Early Christianity by Brittain, Alfred