extrymunction (?)


What was that word that Mink Stole kept saying in this movie about performing "extrymunction"? I can't even tell if that is the word she's saying or not but it sounds like it, my vhs doesn't have closed caption or anything on it. Anyone who knows, please let me know, will you?

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Extreme Unction

A (Catholic) sacrament of the New Law instituted by Christ to give spiritual aid and comfort and perfect spiritual health, including, if need be, the remission of sins, and also, conditionally, to restore bodily health, to Christians who are seriously ill; it consists essentially in the unction by a priest of the body of the sick person, accompanied by a suitable form of words.

from http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05716a.htm

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Extreme unction is now just called last rites

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I wonder if Waters got this from Bergman's "The Silence".

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