This study aims to bring together the various evidences for the administration of baptism in Palestine in the period from the inauguration of the Holy Sepulchre project to Jerusalem achieving patriarchal status.

Juliette Day read a fascinating paper on this subject at the SLS Conference in 1998, and has now turned it into a published Study. It is distinguished by her great care about issues of both topography and dating in relation to Palestine, and in the process she both corrects other scholars and gives a notable overview of a special period.