#unbaptized

[asmallorthodoxblog]

Icon Panagia Paradisiotissa (Our Lady of Paradise) in Pachyammos, Paphos, Cyprus.

According to tradition, unbaptized or prematurely deceased baptized children were buried in this place. It seems people looked to the Virgin Mary, who shows mercy to every suffering person, to intercede with her Son to save their child who had departed this life prematurely. Their plea was even greater when the child was unbaptized, hoping for the mercy of the Virgin Mary and Christ so that the child, who was not at fault, would not be lost and could gain the desired paradise.

[julieschulerart]

In medieval Scotland, children who died unbaptized became spirits called Tarans. Their souls wandered woods and places of solitude. It was thought unlucky tread over their graves.

[rvexillology]

The Mississippi flag if it was an evil dictatorship hell bent on destroying time and space by creating a interdenominational army from the souls of the damned and unbaptized children

from /r/vexillologycirclejerk Top comment: I kind of like it

[nielskalk]

Have I ever told you about hell, dear?

[celinabythehearth]

Schrödinger's Cat(holic)

I was never baptised, never confirmed, or never brought into the church really at all - I think I tried to pray to become a girl once but i think it felt so sinful that I decided to stop before my heart was stopped by divine intervention.

My parents wanted to avoid raising a boy in the catholic church (given the international news breaking at the turn of the millennium). They still raised me with a catholic sense of christianity, despite Jewish heritage on my mom's side, and my attending Anglican mass at a (boy's) boarding school in England? Schrödinger's Cat(holic)?

All of it could have been easily avoided by raising me as the girl i ought to have been \/(ツ)\/ but now I just have a very odd relationship to relics, rosaries, and saints as a trans archaeologist, working in christian countries.

[septentrrional]

Unbaptized @ Running Free, Dryanovo, Bulgaria

30th August 2025

[jss-one]

"This is not my home, I will have no peace."