§ 4. Baptism. After this
anointing the Candidates were “led by the hand to the sacred pool
of Holy Baptism Mystag. ii.
§ 4..” This
pool (κολυμβήθρα)
was supplied with water raised from the reservoirs, of which, as we
shall see, the Bordeaux Pilgrim speaks in his description of the
Basilica.