Viaticum

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 469

Viaticum (Lat., 'provision for a journey'), Holy Communion administered to persons in danger of death. It may be received without fasting (as is required in all other cases) from the midnight previous; and it may be given frequently during the same sickness.

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