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Russian Orthodox icon of The Good Thief in Paradise (Moscow school, c. 1560). A deathbed conversion is the adoption of a particular religious faith shortly before dying. Making a conversion on one's deathbed may reflect an immediate change of belief, a desire to formalize longer-term beliefs, or a desire to complete a process of conversion already underway.
A deathbed confession is an admittance or confession made by a person on their deathbed, i.e., when they are nearing death. Such confessions may help alleviate any guilt or regrets the dying person has, by allowing them to spend their last moments free from any secrets or sins they have been hiding for a long part of their life.
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Lawe, who was of Jewish background, was baptised a Protestant, and had served as vestryman and treasurer of Wisconsin's first Episcopalian church, was reported to have made a deathbed conversion to Catholicism, and was buried in a Catholic cemetery next to his wife Thérèse. Local speculation was that the purpose of his conversion was to allow ...
Abdul Rahman – Afghan convert to Catholic Christianity who escaped the death penalty because of foreign pressure; Rianti Cartwright – Indonesian actress, model, presenter and VJ; two weeks before departure to the United States to get married, she left the Muslim faith to become a baptized Catholic with the name Sophia Rianti Rhiannon Cartwright
Many deathbed confessions are bombshells that leave aftershocks to those who hear them. For some, these final words before passing on are so haunting that they’ve been documented for the ...
The following is a list of notable people who converted to Christianity from a different religion or no religion.This article addresses only past voluntary professions of faith by the individuals listed, and is not intended to address ethnic, cultural, or other considerations such as Marriage.
Pages in category "Converts to Roman Catholicism from Judaism" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 270 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .