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30 May 1994 The Church teaches us that the institution of godfather goes back to times when the Christians were persecuted: there were no baptismal books, so that it was necessary to have a sponsor at baptismbefore God and before men. Ethnologists and anthropologists say that the custom has survived as a functional institution of […]