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Lucy107
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Hello.
Is my mother’s baptism valid, even if no written document of it exists?
My mother is an illegitimate child of two cradle Catholics who never married eachother and lived separately. My mother lived with her mother. As was usual for children at that time (in 1948), my mother was baptized in the Catholic church as an infant, later was confirmed, received communion, regularly went to Mass and confession, prayed in private, and participated in all the usual church activities.
When she wanted to marry in the church, she needed a certificate of her baptism. The priest in the parish where she was baptized told her that the practice then was that illegitimate children were baptized, but no official record of them was kept.
So for the Catholic Church, my mother apparently doesn’t exist, even though she was there and participated in the same ways that legitimate children did.
Thank you for your answer.
Is my mother’s baptism valid, even if no written document of it exists?
My mother is an illegitimate child of two cradle Catholics who never married eachother and lived separately. My mother lived with her mother. As was usual for children at that time (in 1948), my mother was baptized in the Catholic church as an infant, later was confirmed, received communion, regularly went to Mass and confession, prayed in private, and participated in all the usual church activities.
When she wanted to marry in the church, she needed a certificate of her baptism. The priest in the parish where she was baptized told her that the practice then was that illegitimate children were baptized, but no official record of them was kept.
So for the Catholic Church, my mother apparently doesn’t exist, even though she was there and participated in the same ways that legitimate children did.
Thank you for your answer.