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1 " Whatever the reason, the fact is that there was no widespread catechetical teaching for Christian children. Things were going to change. The growing awareness of the need for Christian education was one of the chief forces behind the desire in the sixteenth century to reform the rite of baptism. "
― Hughes Oliphant Old , The Shaping of the Reformed Baptismal Rite in the Sixteenth Century