Churching of women
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title:
Churching of women
text:
In Christian tradition the churching of women, also known as thanksgiving for the birth or adoption of a child, is the ceremony wherein a blessing is given to mothers after recovery from childbirth. The ceremony includes thanksgiving for the woman's survival of childbirth, and is performed even when the child is stillborn, or has died unbaptized. Although the ceremony itself contains no elements of ritual purification, it was related to Jewish practice as noted in Leviticus 12:2–8, where women w
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Christian blessing for mothers after birth
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churching_of_women
date created:
2006-02-12T10:53:09Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T20:22:22Z
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