Baptism Collection (page 4)

The baptism of the Tsar Nicholas IIs daughter
The Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna, the infant daughter of the Tsar, baptised at Tsarkoe Selo, showing the administration of the sacrament to the infant

Clovis Baptised 2
Clovis I, king of the Franks, at the instigation of his queen Clotilda, takes off his royal robes and has himself baptised on Christmas Day

Prince Imperial
Parisians love to celebrate, and the baptism of the Prince Imperial, son of Napoleon and Eugenie, is as good an excuse as any

Kaffirs Purify Child
Kaffir ceremony of purification of a new-born child; in the distance, a child with birth-defects has been left for a wild beast to devour

Baptism Note 1876
A handwritten copy of a baptism certificate issued in 1876 for a baptism in 1840

Culte Naturel
The Revolution replaces the Christian church with a Cult of Nature : like the former church, it holds ceremonies of baptism (shown here), marriage and so on

Baptism by a Priest
CHRISTIAN BAPTISM administered by a priest

Mormon Baptism
Adult baptism among the Mormons, Salt Lake City

Masonic Baptism
Members of a French Lodge propose to baptise a Brothers child (a louveteau, or wolf cub) according to Masonic ritual : its mother is not at all keen on the idea

Protestant Baptism Franc
A Protestant baptism in France

Russian Baptism
Christening a Russian baby in a font at Moscow

Mexican Baptism
Baptism ceremonies in pre-conquest Mexico

Lutheran Baptism, German
A church baptism among the Lutherans at Augsburg

Inca Baptism, Peru
At his baptism, the Incas son has his hair cut and he is given a name

Banyan Baptism, Ceylon
The ceremony of giving a child its name among the Banians

Baptism, Persia
A baptism among the Parsees - ritual bathing followed by circumcision and ritual cleansing

Children to Baptism
A Scandinavian couple on skis take their children to the church to be baptised : due to the long journey, they take them in batches, carrying them on their backs in baskets

Country Christening
A COUNTRY CHRISTENING - countryfolk in their best clothes gather round the font as an infant is initiated into the Christian community, with godparents at hand

Augustine & Ethelbert
Ethelbert, king of Kent, is baptised by Saint Augustine

Jesuss Baptism
God and the Holy Spirit look down with approval, and an angel holds his clothes, as Jesus is baptised in the river Jordan by John the Baptist Date: 1st century

Socialist Baptism
A Socialist baptism at Boulogne-sur-Seine, France, where a political doctrine seems to have become a religious one !

Conversion / Tryggvesson
During his Viking wanderings Olaf Tryggvesson is converted by a hermit on the Isles of Scilly who predicts that he will become a great King

Inca Baptism Ceremony
At the naming ceremony of the Incas of Peru, the childs hair is ritually cut

Zoroastrian Baptism
Baptism by fire, practised by the Parsees of Bombay State, India, followers of Zoroaster (Zarathustra) to whom fire is sacred

C18 English Baptism
A Church of England baptism

Anabaptists in America
ANABAPTISTS An Anabaptist baptism in the United States

Baptism of Guthorm
The Dane Guthorm receives baptism as a condition of the peace treaty that followed his defeat by king Alfred at the Battle of Eddington

Sleeping Beauty - 7
The Thirteenth Fairy, who has been slighted during the baptism of new-born Beauty, casts a spell on the infant, to everyones consternation

Anabaptist Baptism
A mass baptism of the Anabaptists in a river

Baptism of Jesus / John
And Jesus when he was baptised, went up straightway out of the water

Baptism of Albert Edward
Victoria and Albert at the baptism of their first born son, Prince Albert Edward, the Prince of Wales, later to be crowned as Edward VII

Mennonite Meeting
A meeting of Mennonites - followers of Dutch anabaptist Simon Menno - in Hamburg. The scene depicted is the benediction following a baptism

Napoleon II Baptised
Baptism of Napoleons son, k.a. le Roi de Rome, in the chapel of the Tuileries, He will never actually reign, and after his fathers abdication will live in exile in Austria

View of Bethabara on the River Jordan
A view of Bethabara on the River Jordan, in modern-day Jordan, the actual place where Jesus is believed to have been baptised by John the Baptist

Baptism of Humabon in the Philippines
Humabon, King of Cebu in the Philippines, is baptised when Magelhaes (Magellan) visits his island

Baptism
Russian Orthodox Baptism

Open air baptism in the western USA
In the western USA, Baptists baptise their converts at sub-zero temperatures in the open air, trusting to their faith to keep them warm

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