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SACRAMENTALS (Sacramentalia)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 979 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SACRAMENTALS (Sacramentalia) , in the See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:Church certain acts or ordinances instituted not by See also:Christ, but by the Catholic Church with divine authority. They are believed, in their application to persons and things, to communicate quasi ex opere operato through ordained priests the See also:grace of See also:God, consisting in See also:purification, supernatural revivification and sanctification. The See also:term is thus used to See also:cover the See also:rites of See also:dedication, See also:consecration and See also:benediction, and, closely connected with the last-named, See also:exorcism.

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