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

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

From Seeds of Pine by Canuck, Janey

These words were intended by him as a viaticum for her, but they were really to be a legacy of love to his favorite child.

From Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) by Howe, Julia Ward

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 was confessed, and received the sacred viaticum.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 41 of 55, 1691-1700 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. by Blair, Emma Helen