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title: "Summa Theologica, Second Half"
author: "Thomas Aquinas"
translator: "Fathers of the English Dominican Province"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Medieval"
section: 500 of 935
url: https://scriptura.si/works/thomas-aquinas-summa-theologica-second-half/500/
cite: "Thomas Aquinas, tr. Fathers of the English Dominican Province, Summa Theologica, Second Half, section 500. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/thomas-aquinas-summa-theologica-second-half/500/"
---

# Summa Theologica, Second Half

*Thomas Aquinas, tr. Fathers of the English Dominican Province*

Courage and temperance, the states of life, then Christ, the sacraments and the last things.

## 500. III · Question 72: Confirmation

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[¶0] CONFIRMATION (Q 72)

[¶1] OF THE SACRAMENT OF CONFIRMATION (TWELVE ARTICLES)

[¶2] We have now to consider the Sacrament of Confirmation. Concerning this there are twelve points of inquiry:

[¶3] (1) Whether Confirmation is a sacrament?

[¶4] (2) Its matter;

[¶5] (3) Whether it is essential to the sacrament that the chrism should have been previously consecrated by a bishop?

[¶6] (4) Its form;

[¶7] (5) Whether it imprints a character?

[¶8] (6) Whether the character of Confirmation presupposes the character of Baptism?

[¶9] (7) Whether it bestows grace?

[¶10] (8) Who is competent to receive this sacrament?

[¶11] (9) In what part of the body?

[¶12] (10) Whether someone is required to stand for the person to be confirmed?

[¶13] (11) Whether this sacrament is given by bishops only?

[¶14] (12) Of its rite.