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He then excused himself to help baptize a woman near the stage.

From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2024

He also hastily arranged to baptize Abel at Cathedral Chapel of St. Vibiana, the same chapel where he married Alice.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 18, 2024

Román had come to the United States in 2021 for a short trip to baptize a relative.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 16, 2023

A priest had come to her home to baptize her 4-month-old daughter, Nikol, who was scheduled to undergo lifesaving heart surgery the next day.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2022

“In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost I baptize you, my son. Walk forward into the light.”

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

Her church baptizes people in it, and she has seen people cross it on foot.

From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2022

But in an explanatory note accompanying its decision, it recalled that when a priest baptizes someone, it is actually Christ performing the sacrament, not the community.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2022

Arkansas baptizes Texas in the cool, refreshing waters of SEC dominance.

From Fox News ● Sep. 12, 2021

With financial help from her boyfriend, she baptizes seven-year-old Diana.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

Jim Rigby, who baptized Talarico and married his parents, remembers the youngster as a "calming presence."

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

I’d been baptized and raised in a mainstream Kentucky Protestant church, but my father had shared childhood stories of snake handling and speaking in tongues in his Pentecostal Appalachian congregation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

One option we floated, because I was baptized Catholic, was the iconic St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

That same sea that baptized me is, for thousands of others, a grave.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026

And so he became Otto, baptized with rejected milk.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer

The Bible recounts John the Baptist preaching to a flock around the Jordan River and baptizing Jesus there.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

What Mr. Porter said he did remember was wading into the church’s pool and baptizing himself — or, as he claims, having his head held down in the font by “something.”

From Washington Times ● Aug. 8, 2023

“I get what it looks like,” he says of his new job, which doesn’t involve baptizing pop stars in bathtubs or preaching to throngs of adoring congregants.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2023

Behind the tub, a mural of John the Baptist baptizing Jesus stretches across the wall.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2022

“I am only baptizing in water, but someone is standing among you of whom you do not know. He is God’s Lamb, who is to remove the world’s sin.”

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver