If the baby died within a month of its baptism, it was shrouded in its chrisom; otherwise the cloth or its value was given to the church as an offering by the mother at her churching.
2
On the fortieth day from birth another rite is prescribed, of churching the child, which is now taken into the church with its mother.
3
The theory [RCT] even predicts the churching of Europe, should the religious economies of those nations be effectively deregulated.