Previously the mother would not have been present as the baptism as they were held almost immediately after birth. The study also found that there was a movement towards late baptism in recent times which meant that the mother, who was rarely at the baptism ceremony, was present at the moment of introducing the infant into her community of faith. Some of them had very traumatic tales to tell, however, I suppose we lived in a different era then and believed everything we were told." Marie O’Toole, President of the ICA said: “ICA members were delighted to be invited to contribute to this worthwhile project by way of memories dating back to their youth, on the subject of Limbo. Every year my dad used to take me to Marian’s grave to say a little prayer.” But at the time he made a little cross shape tied together with twine, made from two sticks and stuck them in the ground. My dad had to bury her with no grave markings (an unknown grave). “As was customary then my dad had to take her little body late at night well after dark to an old graveyard and on the perimeter of the graveyard. She was born on a Saturday but died the next day. But in 1954 I had a sister born named Marian (as it was Marian year in Ireland). Speaking about their own experience of Limbo, a respondent in the study said: “I was the eldest of ten children. ‘Because people didn’t buy it anymore’.They believe in a more merciful God and that children will go to Heaven directly.’ cruel place and don’t think that children go there. They were no longer afraid of the “fire and brimstone” that our previous generations were afraid to question.’
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