viaticum
Example Sentences
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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
She still breathed, but with difficulty, and speech had failed her; but her lips could still receive the sacred viaticum and smile.
From The Hour Will Come: Volumes I and II A Tale of an Alpine Cloister by Wilhelmine von Hillern
It is a procession, going to carry the viaticum, the last sacrament, to a dying person.
From To Cuba and Back by Richard Henry Dana
The viaticum was, of necessity, to be omitted on account of the vomiting.
From Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith by Henry Digby Beste
He had the priest called, made confession, received the viaticum, and even wanted to have extreme unction....
From The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel by Armando Palacio Vald?s
