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One can imagine that the cup was filled with chrism (oil) used for rituals of some kind hence the meaning of the inscription.— Drudge Retort
January 26th, 2009 at 7: 52 pm chrism - Wenger thinks Eduardo needs at least one more game before returning to the 1st team and Vela was ill before kick off so got withdrawn from the squad which is why we only had— Soccer Blogs - latest posts
"For the housel and the chrism, they be mercies of man.— The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time
"[27 From the end of the fifth century the exercise of the medical art was almost exclusively appropriated by cloisters and monasteries, whose occupants boldly vended the miraculous remedial properties of relics, chrism, baptismal fluids, holy oil, rosy crosses, etc., as of unquestioned virtue.— Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing
The sacrifice is no longer offered, the chrism is no longer consecrated, all the mysteries of religion have fled at the touch of the parricide hands of ungodly men."— Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition

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