{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/008/0080401.htm","path":"chr/ecf/008/0080401.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/0080401.htm","text":"Chapter XXXIV.\u2014Baptism Must Be Preceded by Fasting.\nWhen Niceta had spoken thus, our mother fell down at Peter\u2019s feet, entreating and beseeching him that both herself and her hostess might be baptized without delay; \u201cthat,\u201d said she, \u201cI may not even for a single day suffer the loss of the company and society of my sons.\u201d In like manner, we her sons also entreated Peter. But he said: \u201cWhat! Do you think that I alone am unpitiful, and that I do not wish you to enjoy your mother\u2019s society at meals? But she must fast at least one day first, and so be baptized; and this because I have heard from her a certain declaration, by which her faith has been made manifest to me, and which has given evidence of her belief; otherwise she must have been instructed and taught many days before she could have been baptized.\u201d","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: Pseudo-Clementine Literatu...","type":"page"}