The newly-baptized will traditionally wear their baptismal garment for eight days, especially when receiving Holy Communion. These are special days of prayer and fasting., at the confine of which they return to the church for the "Removal of the Robe on the Eighth Day" and ablutions (in multiplied places today, this ceremony is performed on the same day as the baptism, immediately after Chrismation). During this ceremony, the priest loosens the string on the baptismal robe and prays:
In the Roman Catholic Church, most of those born into the faith are baptized as infants. The traditional clothing for a child being baptised into the Roman Catholic faith is a christening gown, a correct long, white infants' garment now factitious especially for the ceremony of christening and exceptionally only worn then. They are in fact the normal, or at least "best", outer clothing of Western babies until click here about the 19th century.