Thursday, July 19, 2012
St Patrick baptises a fetus in the womb
And behold, Patrick proceeded to the land which is called Foirrgea of the Sons of Amolngid to divide it between the sons of Amolngid, and he made there a square earthen church of clay, because no timber was near.
And they brought to him a sick woman who was pregnant, and he baptized the son in his mother's womb (the woman's liquid served as the son's baptismal water), and they buried her on the hill of the church above, and the holy man's seat is beside the church to the present day; and he built a church for the community in the bay of the sea, that is, Ros mace Caitni.
Tírechán 44
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"the woman's liquid served as the son's baptismal water" -- in that case, we're all baptized in the womb. Bye bye original sin. We all have it baptized away in the womb -- Pelagius was right! (Well, of course I believed Pelagius was right in a more literal sense -- there is no original sin -- but this way works too.)
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