||This article needs attention from an expert in Religion,
Catholicism or Christianity. (March 2013)| The use for baptism
and spiritual cleansing is common among several religions, from
Christianity to Sikhism and Hinduism. The use of holy water as a
sacramental for protection against evil is common among the
Anglican and Roman Catholic christian sects. In Christianity  In
Catholicism, Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Lutheranism,
Oriental Orthodoxy, and some other churches, holy water is water
that has been sanctified by a priest for the purpose of baptism;
the blessing of persons, places, and objects; or as a means of
repelling evil. The use of holy water in the earliest days of
Christianity is attested to only in somewhat later documents.
The Apostolic constitutions which go back to about the year 400,
attribute to the precept of using holy water to Apostle Matthew.
Hence the first historical testimony goes back to the fifth
century. However, it is plausible that, in the earliest
Christian times, water was