viaticum

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The voice of the poet deepens steadily right up to his viaticum, delivered to the world at war: We live in a camp.

From Time Magazine Archive

To finish its course and complete its work, will humanity ever discover another viaticum that will better renew its courage and its hope?

From Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Sabatier, Auguste

He asked for the viaticum, and reconciliation was granted; and almost in the same moment his perfidy was renounced by his mouth and dissolved by his death.

From St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh by Lawlor, Hugh Jackson

Mattress and all, he was borne into the sick-room, where he administered the viaticum to the dying woman.

From Seeds of Pine by Canuck, Janey

Thus it was not a simple viaticum for protection during the journey from Bohemia, and it was not so regarded by any one.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles