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The Baptistery<\/h3>\n

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At the north end of the narthex is a small baptistery chapel. Liturgically this is one of the most important places in a church, where the first sacrament of Christian initiation is administered. The art deco reredos shows the baptism of Christ. The massive marble font \u2013 still in regular use \u2013 is octagonal in shape, in keeping with ancient Christian baptismal iconography. The number 8 is mystically associated with the sacrament of baptism in Scripture: \u2018in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were saved through water. Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you.\u2019 (I Pet 3:20-21).<\/p>\n

The two small stained-glass windows show three interlocking fish: three in honour of the Trinity. Since ancient times the fish has been a symbol of Christ as the Greek word for fish \u2013 ichthus \u2013 is an acronym spelling out the first letters of the expression, also in Greek: Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour. Speaking of baptism, the early Christian writer Tertullian (died c. AD 160) wrote: \u2018we, little fishes, after the example of our ichthus Jesus Christ, are born in water.\u2019 Saint John Chyrsostom (died AD 407), commenting on the Christ\u2019s commission to the Apostles: \u2018I will make you to be fishers of men\u2019 (Matt 4:18), added: \u2018This is indeed a new manner of fishing; since those who go fishing bring fish out of the water and cause death to their catch. We, however, throw human beings into the waters [i.e., of baptism] and when they are brought out they are vivified\u2019.<\/p>\n

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