Sentence examples for baptismal name from inspiring English sources

Keeping one's baptismal name constitutes a formal renewal of the graces bestowed at baptism.

Bob's baptismal name was Berhane Selassie – "Light of the Trinity".

When she was twelve years old, Morrison converted to Catholicism, taking Anthony as her baptismal name, after St. Anthony.

In German usage, however, the baptismal name immediately preceding the family name is the most important one.

About 1813 he changed his third baptismal name, Wilhelm, to Amadeus in homage to the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Years later, after he attended mission schools, he became a Roman Catholic and chose Julius as his baptismal name.

He adopted the name Jean, which he used throughout his professional career in preference to his baptismal names.

For example, if one of the baptismal names in Johann Sebastian Bach or Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is to be omitted, it would be Johann.

1807: Hilarion and George (their baptismal names) were two Ohlone men from the village Pruristac who served as alcaldes (mayors) of the Mission San Francisco in 1807.

Be sure to see the granite plaque outside the mission church listing the baptismal names of the 837 neophytes buried at the mission.

This is in no way a renunciation of their baptismal names, but rather, it symbolizes their entering a new stage of their lives as Catholics.