catechumens

• According to the rite of the first admission to the lowest order of catechumens, the sign of the cross was made on Augustin's forehead, and the symbolic salt placed between his lips. —  Saint Augustin
• The day of the baptism of the catechumens, this celebrated man mounted the platform set up in the basilica for the profession of faith of the newly converted, and there, like the meanest of the faithful, he delivered his profession before all the assembled people. —  Saint Augustin
• With his knowledge of men, Augustin carefully studied the kind of people his catechumens were, and adapted his instructions to the character of each. —  Saint Augustin
• Of all the catechumens, the hardest to deal with, the most fearsome in his eyes, were the professors—the rhetoricians and the grammarians. —  Saint Augustin
• Concerning those who convert from the heresies of the Novatians, Photinians, or Tessareskaidecatitæ - be they their catechumens or their would-be believers - they are not to be admitted before they anathematize every heresy, and particularly the one in which they were bound; and thus their so-called believers, once they learn the beliefs of the faith and have been anointed with holy Chrism, may thenceforth partake of the holy Mysteries. —  orrologion

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