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Viatʹicum (Latin)

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The Eucharist administered to the dying. The word means “money allowed for a journey,” and the notion is that this sacrament will be the spirit’s passport to Paradise.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Viaticum