Somewhat more recent, and very well known, are the great baptisteriesof Florence and Pisa.
In some instances the baptistery adjoins the atrium or forecourt; but it soon became customary to erect detached baptisteriesof considerable size.
Baptisteries were dedicated to St. John the Baptist.
In addition to the churches above named, similar niches are found in the baptisteriesof Novara and Arsago, the Duomo Vecchio at Brescia and the church of San Nazaro Grande at Milan.
They were generally used as baptisteries or mausoleums; in fact were ceremonial churches.
When the later Comacines worked in more florid Romanesque style, the Baptisteries were often covered with little galleries or rows of colonnettes like those of Pisa, Parma, Lucca, etc.
Some interesting baptisteries were erected in the tenth century by the Comacines.
The most remarkable of these baptisteries is that in the catacomb of San Pontianus (fig.
We have already spoken of the eucharistic celebrations of which the cubicula were the scene; and still existing baptisteries prove that the other sacrament was also administered there.
The use of natural rather than of artificial baptisteries is not to be elevated into an essential.
Some baptisteries were divided into two parts to separate the sexes; sometimes the church had two baptisteries, one for each sex.
Baptisteries belong to a period of the church when great numbers of adult catechumens were baptized, and when immersion was the rule.
Though baptisteries were forbidden to be used as burial-places by the council of Auxerre (578) they were not uncommonly used as such.
As soon as Christianity made such progress that baptism became the rule, and as soon as immersion gave place to sprinkling, the ancient baptisteries were no longer necessary.
After the 9th century few baptisteries were built, the most noteworthy of later date being those at Pisa, Florence, Padua, Lucca and Parma.
Some of the older baptisteries were very large, so large that we hear of councils and synods being held in them.
At Ravenna exist two famous baptisteries encrusted with fine mosaics, one of them built in the middle of the 5th century, and the other in the 6th.
Eusebius speaks of baptisteries without the church "for those who require yet the purification and the sprinklings (perirrhantêrion) of water and the Holy Spirit.
In ancient sarcophagal reliefs in the Vatican are representations of small detached baptisteries of circular form, crowned with the Constantinian monogram.
Of this character seem to have been those erected or inlaid by Constantine in his baptisteries and elsewhere.
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