Stories of Paraná - Sixteen baptized

Stories of Paraná - Sixteen baptized

Sixteen baptized
Flora Muñoz Rocha

This is the story of a wily conman daring audacity unprecedented.
The man had the nerve to baptize the child sixteen times.
Truth. No exaggeration - sixteen times.
Every time I had just the money at home, he did not put doubt left behind a godfather of possessions and have marked new church in a new baptized.
Succeeded engineers, lawyers, people who had nothing silly.
Godmother had not, it was always Mary.
He knew that woman smiting things and end up discovering.
We know it is the custom among the humblest class, the groomsmen dress in his godson's christening day.
But Godfather, as most important, have less time to worry about enxovalzinho then were giving money, which was what the boy's father wanted.
Pocketing the money resumed following the trajectory of the baptized. Have not felt more embarrassment.
However, his reasoning did not cover all cases. Only in the Savings and he had three compadres, will talk, talk comes, the boy's godparents certified sham - my husband, Jofre Cabral, and if I'm not mistaken, the third was the Orlando Loyola.
Jofre was the most felt cheated.
He, with his peculiar enthusiasm, could not do anything halfway, and besides money for the white gown, the boy's neck hung a gold chain with medal of St. Jude opened savings accounts and the day to lead them in his beautiful car to church Santa Felicidade, because of the promise that the rogue guaranteed to have made at the birth of the boy.
His swindle deserved serious concealer, and when accused of committing a sacrilege, arms hanging to the side was left with a crying face totally ridiculous, justifying: "I do not see gravity about it, the more my child is baptized, the better for him , it becomes a child of God. "
I remember that when I heard this story, I remembered one very similar in our house when we were kids and one of my brothers, who had the nickname Pedro Malazarte, made first communion four times.
He was taken from Breca and kept getting asked to leave colleges of priest and every time he changed boarding, claimed never to have made their first communion because candy, candle in hand, the day off.
I think that's why I listened without surprise the story of sixteen baptized.

Flora Muñoz Rocha, former first lady of the state, is chronicler.


Source: Stories of Paraná, Brasil.