baptized

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A month after losing his mother, Mpoyi was baptized at chapel held in the school gym.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2026

The first missionary arrived on Easter Island in 1864: By 1868 all the islanders had been baptized.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

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.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2025

He knows the rules better than most baptized Catholics.

From Salon • May 23, 2025

I was baptized in a skanky basement shower.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx