<P> In Catholicism, Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy and some other churches, holy water is water that has been sanctified by a priest for the purpose of baptism, the blessing of persons, places, and objects, or as a means of repelling evil . </P> <P> The use of holy water used by various sects of Christianity is a non-scripturally based practice only attested to in late Catholic documents . The Apostolic Constitutions, which goes back to about the year 400, attribute the precept of using holy water to the Apostle Matthew; however, this attribution is tenuous . It is plausible that in earliest Christian times water was used for expiatory and purificatory purposes in a way analogous to its employment in Jewish Law . Yet, in many cases, the water used for the Sacrament of Baptism was flowing water, sea or river water, and it could not receive the same blessing as that contained in the baptisteries in the view of the Roman Catholic church . However, Eastern Orthodox do perform the same blessing, whether in a baptistry or an outdoor body of water . </P> <P> Sprinkling with holy water is used as a sacramental that recalls baptism . Holy water is kept in the holy water font, which is typically located at the entrance to the church (or sometimes in a separate room or building called a baptistery). Smaller vessels, called stoups, are usually placed at the entrances of the church, to enable people to sprinkle themselves with it on entering . In recent years, with the concerns over influenza, new holy water machines that work like an automatic soap dispenser have become popular . </P> <P> In the Middle Ages the power of holy water was considered so great that in some places fonts had locked covers to prevent the theft of holy water for unauthorized magic practices . The Constitutions of Archbishop Edmund Rich (1236) prescribe that "Fonts are to be kept under lock and key, because of witchcraft (sortilegia). Similarly the chrism and sacred oil are kept locked up ." </P>

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