visitation of the sick

In the visitation of the sick, if the sick person makes a confession of his sins, and 'if he heartily and humbly desire it,' the Priest is bidden to absolve him.

From The Church: Her Books and Her Sacraments by E. E. Holmes

Your godly prayer-book, says, in the visitation of the sick, "the ministers shall not omit, earnestly to move, such sick persons, as are of ability, to be liberal to the poor."

From Two Addresses One to the Gentlemen of Whitby and the other, to the Protestant Clergy by Nicholas Rigby

They shall render all necessary aid at the public and special services of worship and in the administration of the Lord's Supper, especially at the Kinderlehre and in the visitation of the sick.

From The Organization of the Congregation in the Early Lutheran Churches in America by Beale M. Schmucker

A baptism follows; after that a marriage: and we then proceed, in due course, to the visitation of the sick, and the burial of the dead.

From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

Towards the evening, Dr. Tatham also, as had been his daily custom through her illness, appeared, and in a low tone read over the service for the visitation of the sick.

From Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Samuel Warren