Assertion: godmother's role | /r/HasProperty | separated by early middle ages
Facets:
value: from that of the birth parents
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: But by the early Middle Ages, the role of “spiritual mother/father” had been separated from that of the birth parents; and the godparents’ duty came to be seen as that of caring for the spiritual welfare of the baptized person (who by that point was usually an infant) if anything happened to the biological parents.