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>Baptism of Water EXISTS for deathbed!
>Therefore Baptism of Desire DOESN'T EXIST!!
Come on. The logic is so poor.

This is another example vindicating Fr. Feeney (RIP):

"There is no one about to die in the state of justification whom God cannot secure Baptism for, and indeed, Baptism of Water. The schemes concerning salvation, I leave to the sceptics. The clear truths of salvation, I am preaching to you."

St. Francis Xavier, St. Peter Claver, Fr. De Smet, Ss. Isaac Jogues, Jean de Brébeuf, would be a good start. There are a number of stories of people being brought back to life in order to be baptized, and then immediately dying again. Or living just long enough to be baptized.
I have been thinking that an extensive study of missionaries (i.e. those actually "in the field", "foot soldiers") regarding the necessity of Baptism would be a valuable addition to the debate. Those men who interacted daily with potential BOD candidates, what did they think of the matter? Or did they think about it at all? No offense to the theologian authors of catechisms and manuals, but they mostly were not the ones traveling across the world in order to save the souls of the ignorant pagans

Anything I've read regarding prominent missionaries points to the fact that they simply believed that there was no salvation outside of the Church, and that the Sacrament of Baptism was necessary for salvation.

Saint among savages; the life of Isaac Jogues by Francis Talbot, S.J.
Section IV "Under the shadow of death", pg 84-85
https://archive.org/details/saintamongsavage0000talb

For the next few weeks the Blackrobes were regarded affably. They were welcomed in the cabins and allowed to minister and instruct the sick. But baptism they did not administer, except under certainty of death. On one occassion, Father Jogues found a savage named Sononresk favorably disposed and sufficiently instructed, who was gasping his last breath. All through the night the man kept repeating "Rihouiosta" (I believe). Ondessonk (St. Isaac Jogues) baptized him, and the man suddenly recovered. He announced that baptism cured him; the water that had been poured on his head by Ondessonk had flowed down through his throat, so that he felt no more pains. His rejoicing in this life was not for long, however, for he died the next day.


same reference, pg 86
As soon as Ihonatiria quieted, de Brebeuf and Jogues, with Maturin, on January 17, fared on another apostolic journey. The snows were wast deep. The trees of the forest were coated with ice crystals. They visited Wenrio, the first village that had accepted Echon's proposals a little more than a month before. Not one of the savages would tolerate any words from the Blackrobes. They went on to Angwiens, where they remained the night. The natives were hostile, but the missioners managed to baptize two dying children. They crunched through the banks and drifts of snow to Ossossane where, as they said, "they found the devil let loose."

same reference, pg 88
De Brebeuf and Jogues waited for the hysteria to pass. they had the consolation of baptizing a few souls and sending them to God. One was a squaw who had resisted all their attempts to talk to her until just before her end, when she begged to be baptized. Another was a young brave who eagerly wished for baptism, but whose relatives guarded him against the approach of Echon and Ondessonk. De Brebeuf waited until the relatives were absent from the cabin, then poured the saving waters on his head a moment before his mother-in-law returned to prevent him. As he related: "The Divine Goodness had prepared this moment for an act of mercy to this poor young man, doubtless through the merits of St. Joseph, who was invoked very especially on this occassion, as well as on the preceding one."