Aspersion

Aspersion,

(1.) a name given by the early writers to baptism by pouring or sprinkling. SEE BAPTISM.

(2.) In the Roman Church, sprinkling of person or things with the so-called holy water is called " aspersion." The water is mixed with salt, and blessed by a given form of benediction for use in the church or at the altar.- Boissonnet, Diet. des Ceremonies, p. 105. SEE HOLY WATER.

 
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