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

It is a procession, going to carry the viaticum, the last sacrament, to a dying person.

From To Cuba and Back by Dana, Richard Henry

The Archbishop of Auch, accompanied by quite a retinue of ecclesiastics, approached with the holy viaticum.

From Louis XIV. Makers of History Series by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

In this bed he once lay for weeks feigning mortal illness, and thus induced the priest to give him the viaticum.

From A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors by Wolfe, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen)

The 13th Canon of the Council of Nice ordains that none "be deprived of his perfect and most necessary viaticum when he departs out of this life."

From The Church Handy Dictionary by Anonymous