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The baptismal fonts in our Protestant churches, and we need hardly say more especially the little cisterns at the entrance of our Catholic chapels, are not imitations, but an unbroken and never interrupted continuation of the same _aqua minaria_, or _amula_, which the learned Montfaucon, in his _Antiquities_, shows to have been vases of holy water, which were placed by the heathens at the entrance of their temples, to sprinkle themselves with upon entering those sacred edifices.
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Sanctify this water to the mystical washing away of sin, concluding with the formula,
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In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.