viaticum

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

The priests had the power of forcing their way into the dying man's house, where they presented themselves at his bedside, and offered him conversion and the viaticum.

From The Huguenots in France by Samuel Smiles

They had lost their last cent, and the directors of the establishment, who generously send ruined gamblers back to their respective countries, had handed over the viaticum to them for their return.

From The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) by Vicente Blasco Ib??ez

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

From Seeds of Pine by Janey Canuck

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 Antonio Alvarez de Abreu