A churchgoer has been baptised at the age of 101. Ivy Smith was also confirmed after members of the congregation at a church she was visiting asked why she did not go forward to receive communion.
Mrs Smith, from Bishop's Waltham, Hampshire, said: 'I was sitting there on my own. I said I'd never been confirmed or baptised, and they asked me if I'd like to be. I said, "At my age?".'
The service was held on Saturday at the Anglican Cathedral in Portsmouth.
Ivy Smith is believed to be the oldest worshipper in the country to go through the service. Despite growing up in a Methodist family and attending chapel daily, neither she nor her 13 siblings were baptised.
After the service at Portsmouth's Anglican Cathedral Ivy said: "It was really lovely. I really feel part of things now."
Report adapted from the Times Online and the Daily Mirror
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