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"Anthony Pierce was a man entrusted to preside over christenings, funerals, weddings and prayers," she added.

The houseboat is safe, as is the Windmill Chapel, where weddings, christenings and memorials are held.

In 1859, there was enough critical mass for some 300 miners to christen their settlement “Prospect Bar.”

Doris was known for her frankness, as well as the hilarious reason she refused to make a salad for Neil the Baby’s christening.

When a common hippo was born in Eastern Thailand last month, she was named by an online poll too, and christened Hom Daeng, the Thai word for “Shallot.”