catechumen

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Thereupon she called her brother to her, and that catechumen, and spoke to them, saying: Stand fast in the faith, and love you all one another; and be not offended because of our passion.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Born of heathen parents, he turned to Christ and became a catechumen.

From Time Magazine Archive

From that day forth he became a catechumen and the protector and friend of the Christians.

From Saint Athanasius The Father of Orthodoxy by Forbes, F. A. (Frances Alice)

A catechumen was a person who desired instruction in the new faith with a view to baptism and admission into the Church.

From History of Education by Seeley, Levi

Those who suffered with her were, Felicitas, a married lady, big with child at the time of her being apprehended; and Revocatus, catechumen of Carthage, and a slave.

From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by Foxe, John