Sunday, October 20, 2024

From My Autobiography: Baptism

Baptism

St Saviour’s Church
New Line, Bacup, Lancashire, England

The vicar, Henry Heaps, baptizes me.

This sprinkling ritual becomes my first contact with what would eventually lead to an on-going spiritual quest, one that would introduce me to various religions and philosophies, as well as personal turmoil. But that, too, lay in the future.

St Saviour's Church now lies abandoned.