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As an incomplete list of relevant passages, some useful text is on page 108, including an interesting account of a lightning strike following the line of the trim—which would make a great WP:DYK in my opinion—quoted from a source contemporary with the trend reaching the Americas, there is more on point on page 144, and the topic comes up in ...
The Apostolic Constitutions, whose texts date to c. 400 AD, attribute the precept of using holy water to the Apostle Matthew.It is plausible that the earliest Christians may have used water for expiatory and purificatory purposes in a way analogous to its employment in Jewish Law ("And he shall take holy water in an earthen vessel, and he shall cast a little earth of the pavement of the ...