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

He said the mass, and paused when he came to the viaticum.

From Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)

She gave, however, clear signs of intelligence, and received the viaticum, as well as the last unction.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.

He is carrying the viaticum, or sacrament, to some dying person.

From The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Douce, Francis

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)