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The Medieval Church · 15th century
On Visiting the Sick
Anonymous
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What it is
Instructions for priests attending the dying: what to ask, what to read aloud, how to prompt the acts of faith and contrition, and what to do when speech fails.
Why it lasted
The practical companion to the Ars Moriendi, and evidence of how carefully the late medieval church managed the deathbed.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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