This, my friends, is a "Nottaufspritze", or "syringe for emergency baptism".
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This, my friends, is a "Nottaufspritze", or "syringe for emergency baptism".
If the midwife strongly suspected that the child would be stillborn, and could not see the child's head, she could inject the syringe into the vagina, and thus sprinkle the child with holy water and provide an emergency baptism before the stillborn child was formally dead.
Because the souls of unbaptized children don't go into Heaven.
#TIL #history #Christianity #baptism
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nottaufspritze_MfK_Wgt.jpg
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This, my friends, is a "Nottaufspritze", or "syringe for emergency baptism".
If the midwife strongly suspected that the child would be stillborn, and could not see the child's head, she could inject the syringe into the vagina, and thus sprinkle the child with holy water and provide an emergency baptism before the stillborn child was formally dead.
Because the souls of unbaptized children don't go into Heaven.
#TIL #history #Christianity #baptism
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nottaufspritze_MfK_Wgt.jpg@juergen_hubert Catholic barbarism.
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@juergen_hubert Catholic barbarism.
Eh, most major world religions have some barbarian practices in their past.
The main thing is that the doctrine of the "Limbo of the Innocents" has been overturned.
