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Churching of women

Here are entered works on a ceremony in some churches by which after childbirth women are received in church with prayers and thanksgiving.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Childbirth -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
• Mothers -- Religious life
• Sacramentals

• Candlemas

• Candles in the Roman Rite (third edition; Baltimore: A. Gross Candle Co., 1937), by Edwin Ryan, illust. by James R. Howard (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Shaken Creeds: The Virgin Birth Doctrine, by Jocelyn Rhys (HTML at englishatheist.org)
• The Unknown God; and Other Orthodox Essays (Indianapolis: Sentinel Printing Co., 1914), by Jacob Piatt Dunn (multiple formats at Indiana)
• Dissertations on Subjects Connected with the Incarnation (London: J. Murray, 1895), by Charles Gore (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Oldest Vocation: Christian Motherhood in the Medieval West (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1991), by Clarissa W. Atkinson (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Talks on the Sacramentals (c1950), by Arthur Tonne (HTML at EWTN)