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Why catechumens would spit symbolically on Satan before being baptized

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Philip Kosloski - published on 04/03/22
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Those to be baptized in the early Church renounced Satan by facing West and spitting on the ground.

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The current rite of Baptism states that those to be baptized, or the sponsors in their place, should make an act of renunciation of Satan.

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