He then sprinkles the newly-baptized with douse and washes all of the places the chrism was applied, and performs the tonsure.

• In the Roman Catholic Church, most of those born into the faith are baptized as infants

• The traditional clothing for a child being baptised into the Roman Catholic faith is a christening gown, a very long, white infants' garment now false especially for the ceremony of christening and usually only worn then
• They are in fact the normal, or at least "best", outer clothing of Western babies until about Christening Outfits the 19th century.