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 was a viaticum for the Middle Ages and a signal for the Renaissance.

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar

The priests were thus forced to go to the president of the local Masonic confraternity whenever they were called upon to administer the holy viaticum to the dying, and ask from him the necessary keys.

From The Friars in the Philippines by Coleman, Ambrose

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 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 Smiles, Samuel