last rites

Noun

Meaning

a Catholic sacrament; a priest anoints a dying person with oil and prays for salvation

rites performed in connection with a death or burial

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And it will also be the individuals who are in danger of death who need to have the last rites celebrated,” O’Donnell said. Source: Internet

Afterwards he collapsed again with another, larger haemorrhage before being taken home, where he died a few hours later, without receiving the last rites because two priests refused to visit him while a third arrived too late. Source: Internet

After performing the funeral and last rites in less than three days, Shastri is known to have immediately returned to jail despite having 12 more days of freedom from jail. Source: Internet

And as you’d expect from a beverage team that includes co-owner Ian Scalzo (a Future Bars alum), Susan Eggette (Forbidden Island in Alameda) and Sevan Araneda (Horsefeather, Forbidden Island), some of the cocktails at Last Rites are excellent. Source: Internet

His enemies related that he repented and accepted the last rites given by a Catholic priest, or that he died under great torment, while his adherents told how he was defiant to his last breath. Source: Internet

In a heart-wrenching incident a woman carried the body of her husband on a cart after relatives refused to attend the last rites, at Athani here on July 17. Source: Internet

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