Krajewski also helped to clothe each child in a white garment after their baptism to symbolize that the child has “put on Christ” and risen with the Lord. The feast of the Baptism of the Lord ...

Then, emerging from the waters of baptism the neophytes were clothed in the white garment, the garment of God’s light, and they received the lighted candle as a sign of the new life in the light ...

It details how the white garments worn for baptism in the early church symbolized spiritual cleansing and new life in Christ, a symbolism that carried over to communion dresses. Symbolic ...