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

While he was receiving the confession of the royal penitent, the cardinal was hurrying to the chapel to get the viaticum for administering the communion, and the holy oil for the rite of extreme unction.

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

On the 6th of December he fell ill; on the 8th, the President of St. John's College, in presence of the Fathers and Religious of the Society, administered the viaticum.

From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various

He said the mass, and paused when he came to the viaticum.

From Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)

At eleven o'clock in the evening, they brought the viaticum to Do�a Gertrudis with all the ceremony required by such a solemn act.

From The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel by Palacio Vald?s, Armando