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

He asked the father to come and say mass, and to give him the viaticum.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 30 of 55 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXX, 1640 by Abreu, Antonio Alvarez de

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)

Which acts and censures make manifest, that our Kirk abhorred whatsoever fostered the opinion of the necessitie of Baptisme, and giving of the Sacrament, as a viaticum.

From The Acts Of The General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland by Church of Scotland. General Assembly

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