Last Sacrament?

[LincolnToddFan]

In the Roman Catholic Church, a non Catholic Christian may receive the Last Rites of the Church, but only in the most extreme emergency. For example, a dying soldier on a battlefield being tended to by a Catholic chaplain...or there was a truly horrific situation many years ago here in California where a plane had crashed into a residential area. A priest walked among the wounded and the dying, administering the Sacrament to them.

Children do not approach the Eucharist until they have been prepared to do so, usually around ages 7-8.

If Powell and the others had not had access to any Protestant clergy on execution day, they probably would not have received the Catholic Eucharist but they would definitely have been prayed over and anointed by a priest if they so desired.

Betty, today is uncomfortably hot and humid, approaching 95 degrees. Just as it would have been on July 7, 1865.