In a message dated 03/04/2000 6:28:33 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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<< What is actually done near the time of death is the sacrament of the
anointing of the sick, or holy unction as it used to be called.
>>
By the hands of the Dominican sisters who taught me, it was referred to as
"Extreme Unction" (or as we heard it "extramonkshun"). "Anointing of the
Sick" was not used by anyone I knew until about 8th grade or early school,
IOW early 70's.
mark
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