"How do they make more? There must be some complicated ritual, yes? The cannot take it right from the faucet and pass a hand over and make it holy, can they? There must be prayers, maybe a little dance, the shaking of a cross?"

A bit irreverent yes, but it was a funny mental image. Hans chuckled, picturing a priest doing the holy water dance. He leaned in to Michel and added conspiratorially "Unless priests are so holy that when they make water it is blessed."

He hoped that phrase had the same meaning in French.