Re: CHAT: Religions (was: Visible planets)

In a message dated 11/16/2003 1:36:51 PM Eastern Standard Time,
isidora@ZAMORA.COM writes:


>Does the West have anything like the naming of the child and the Churching
>of mother and child?
There was an optional custom of the "churching" the  new mother.  Here's the
entry from the Catholic Encyclopedia:

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03761a.htm

In understand that the custom essentially died out but has recently been
revived in places.

Doug