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Content Enable editor Use plain text Code entry The new Christian underwent indoctrination after baptism, not before it. Although Baltasar Lopez claimed that it was his practice "at the beginning" in Florida to indoctrinate adults for up to four years before baptizing them, relentlessly grounding them in the faith, this was not usual (Lopez, 1602). Missionaries ordinarily reduced prebaptismal instruction to essentials. In the Philippines, all that the Discalced Franciscans and the Jesuits required of adults prior to baptism was that they: repudiate paganism, affirm belief in the sacrament they were about to receive, be monogamous if married, be able to recite the Pater Noster, Credo, Ave Maria, and Ten Commandments, know how to bless themselves, and have some idea of the meaning of the other sacraments and of the obligations of a Catholic, namely to attend Mass on Sundays and holy days and make an annual confession. The very old were baptized if they could so much as recall what they had to believe in order to be saved. The very young, of course, were baptized at birth and received all their indoctrination postbaptismally. Missionaries to the Philippines complained that the filipinos were all too easily baptized, drawn by the offer of material gifts and magical powers, including the supposed curative properties of Holy Water. The actions of 16th- and 17th-century missionaries would not have disabused them... Franciscans in New Mexico used religious medals on arrow wounds, and a secular priest in the Valley of Mexico cured a bewitched woman by having her take a spoonful of water containing a bit of saint's bone. (Bushnell SS)

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