every baby christened in Florence is brought to the great baptistery of the cathedral for the sacrament, and this was the custom in many another of the small Italian dioceses right down to the Middle Ages. In such circumstances it was much easier to make episcopal Confirmation generally available than in the large tribal dioceses North of the Alps. The next point is a change in Western terminology. Hitherto the Latin name for the Baptism of the Spirit had been the Scriptural term ‘the Seal’—signaculum,