I have told you never to use my Christian name, she said.
It was the first time she had used his Christian name.
They started to call one another by their Christian names.
They'd learned only a couple of those, and then just Christian names.
Many, if not most of them he had always called by their Christian names.
"How long have you called your parents by their Christian names?"
As the major with the strange Christian name had said, that was life.
But the reader is not told his Christian name or indeed anything else about him.
And this was the first time they had ever used Christian names, because one didn't do it at school.
He was touched that she had used his baptismal name.
An insisted that the captors call him by his baptismal name, Thomas.
The Raymond was a baptismal name and is not registered on my birth certificate.
This was necessary because of a small supply of baptismal names.
However, daughters of the king were usually known as Madame followed by their baptismal name.
As James John, his baptismal name, he became involved in radical politics.
I gave you my real baptismal name, which is Bridget.
In 1592 he changed his baptismal name to Antonio.
Occasionally he signed public acts in the royal manner, with his baptismal name only.
Sometimes, the monastic name will begin with the same initial as the individual's baptismal name.