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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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According to Catholic Church statistics, there were about 25, 000 baptisms in Havana in 1989.
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For a first Mass it had certainly been a tough baptism .
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He prepares couples for marriage, and children for baptism and communion.
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He remembered hymns and baptisms down on this lake; religious conversion and arms reaching up in real belief.
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It is almost impossible to see where events will lead but you are going through a baptism of fire.
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The last three groups were a type of radical Protestant sometimes called Anabaptist, because they did not believe in infant baptism .