eulogia

noun

1. The practice of sending the consecrated Eucharist to those not present, or the Eucharist itself so sent.

   historical

   To Severus he sends "a Campanian loaf from his cell, as a eulogia," together with a boxwood casket, and begs him, as before, by accepting the loaf in the name of the Lord to convert it into a eulogia.

Where it comes from

From Latin eulogia, from Ancient Greek εὐλογῐ́ᾱ (eulogĭ́ā).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry eulogia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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