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Extreme unction

Type of religious oil for the well-being of the patient, practiced by many Christians religion.

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  • The last sacrament of Saint Jerome. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, 1830, after Annibale Carracci.
  • A priest administering the sacrament of extreme unction to a dying woman. Wood engraving by N. Knilling.
  • A young knight in full armour receiving extreme unction from a priest surrounded by his grieving family. Line engraving with stipple by J. Goodyear after G. Cattermole.
  • A prisoner lies dying in his bed, his life ruined by earlier frivolity. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
  • A Christian Roman soldier receiving the Extreme Unction. Engraving by B. Audran I after N. Poussin, 1644-48.
  • A priest administering extreme unction to a dying man in a bedchamber with a makeshift altar. Etching by B. Picart, 1724.
  • A prisoner lies dying in his bed, his life ruined by early frivolity. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
  • Chaos in the aftermath of battle with the dead and wounded being attended to as the armies retreat. Engraving by J. J. Kleinschmidt after G. P. Rugendas I.
  • Ambroise Paré using a ligature on an artery of an amputated leg of a soldier, during the Siege of Metz, 1553. Photogravure after T. Chartran, 1889.
  • A woman being shown her newborn child for the final time before she receives the last rites. Engraving by A.H. Payne after C. Piloty.
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