#sacrament  a formal religious act conferring a specific grace on those who receive it
  supertype:  #religious_ceremony__religiousceremony__religious_ritual__religiousritual  a ceremony having religious meaning
  subtype:  #sacrament_of_the_Eucharist__Eucharist__Holy_Sacrament__Liturgy__Eucharistic_liturgy__Lord's_Supper  a Christian sacrament commemorating the Last Supper by consecrating bread and wine
  subtype:  #matrimony  the ceremony or sacrament of marriage
  subtype:  #baptism  a Christian sacrament signifying spiritual cleansing and rebirth; "most churches baptize infants but some insist on adult baptism"
     subtype:  #affusion__pouring  the act of baptizing someone by pouring water on their head
     subtype:  #sprinkling__aspersion  the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare)
     subtype:  #immersion  a form of baptism in which part or all of a person's body is submerged
     subtype:  #christening  giving a Christian name at baptism
  subtype:  #confirmation.sacrament  a sacrament admitting a baptized person to full participation in the church
  subtype:  #penance  a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and satisfaction and absolution
     subtype:  #confession  (Roman Catholic Church) the act of a penitent disclosing his sinfulness before a priest in the sacrament of penance in the hope of absolution
        subtype:  #shrift  the act of being shriven
  subtype:  #anointing_of_the_sick__extreme_unction__extremeunction__last_rites  a Catholic sacrament; a priest anoints a dying person with oil and prays for salvation
  subtype:  #holy_orders  the sacrament of ordination

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