In instituting the Sacrament of Baptism, Christ made no exceptions. His command was:

"Teach ye all nations, baptizing them, etc."

"Go into the whole world and preach the gospel to every creature. He who believes and is baptized shall be saved, but he who does not shall be condemned."

In addition to those examples, there are the 'household" passages where entire families were baptized and where we PRESUME there must have been children in some of them.

These household Scripture texts, however, are relatively weak. But the tradition of the Church is so conclusive that some Protestants lay aside the "Bible alone" principle and baptize infants on the strength of Catholic tradition.

Recent discoveries in the Roman catacombs prove that infant baptism was common in the primitive Church. Thus a certain Murtius Verinus placed on the tomb of his children the inscription: "Verina received (baptism) at the age of ten months, Florina at the age of twelve months."

Above another tomb we read: "Here rests Archillia, a newly-baptized (infant); she was one year and five months old, died February 23rd."