Churching of Women
a form of thanksgiving after child-birth, adopted from the Jewish ceremony of purification, and practiced still in the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches, the lat- CHURUBUSCO churches, with baptism by immersion only, subsequent to faith; feet-washing ; the administration of the Lord's Supper in the evening; all the instrumentalities of revivals; and protests against the traffic in intoxicating drinks. The denomination supports several educational institutions, a publishing house at Harrisburg, Pa., and a number of missionaries in India and in other foreign countries. It has some 500 ministers, about 600 churches, and about 40,000 communicants. a or CHURCH, STATES OF THE, PAPAL STATES, a territory that stretched from the Po to near Naples, and in 1859 had an area of 15,774 square miles and a pop. of 3,000,000. It was divided for administrative purposes into 20 districts, including the Comarca of Rome; six legations, among them those of Bologna and Ravenna; and 13 delegations, including Ancona and Perugia. More general divisions were the Romagna, Umbria, and the March of Ancona. The war of 1859 and the popular vote of 1860 left the Pope only the comarca of Rome, the legation of Velletri, and the delegations of Civita Vecchia, Frosinone, and Viterbo, 4,493 square miles in extent, with a pop. of about 700,000, the rest being united with Italy. The temporal power of the Popes originated in a gift of the exarchate of Ravenna by Pepin to Pope Stephen II., and it reached its greatest extent under Innocent III. (1198-1216). The withdrawal of the French garrison of Rome in 1870 led to the final downfall of the Pope's temporal power, and the restriction of the Pope's jurisdiction within the limits of the Vatican.