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unusual facts about Infant baptism


Cathleen ni Houlihan

With little subtlety, she requests a blood sacrifice, declaring that "many a child will be born and there will be no father at the christening".



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Luther, Zwingli, and Calvin preserved infant baptism against the attacks of more radical reformers including Anabaptists, and with it, sponsors at baptism.

Wilhelm Reublin

In the Fall of 1522 Reublin was expelled from the city for his Reformation sermons and moved to Witikon in 1524, where he became the local pastor and preached against infant baptism.