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

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

To finish its course and complete its work, will humanity ever discover another viaticum that will better renew its courage and its hope?

From Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Sabatier, Auguste

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)

No; that miniature is not the viaticum for eternity.

From Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Imbert de Saint-Amand, Arthur Léon, baron