45. This sacrament is called "extreme
unction" by both the Latins and the Greeks. At the second general council
of Lyons convened by the leaders of east and west in 1274, Latins and Greeks
approved and signed a statement of faith (Harduin, Collect., vol. 7, p.
695). The Greeks also call this sacrament the oil consecrated and sanctified by
the prayers of priests, and the perfecting or fulfillment of the sacrament of
penance. It is named euchelaeon in the Euchologion of Goarius, p. 346,
no. 42 and p. 349, no. 1. The same name is used by writers of the next
generation as can be seen in Georgius Pachymeres, Hist. Palaeol., bk. 6,
chap. 32, and Possinus uses the same name in Bk. 1 Glos., p. 386 in
Gabriel Philadelphius De Sacramento Euchelaei and Acta Ecclesiae
Orientalis, vol. 1, p. 338. Moreover, the Greeks sometimes call this
sacrament Heptapapadum. At the synod in Constantinople which met under
Patriarch Giovanni Veccos in 1277, the Patriarch accepted the confession of
faith agreed upon at the Council of Lyons. He wrote to the Roman Pontiff John
XX (XXI) that: "We also accept extreme unction as we accept the other
sacraments. It is named heptapapadum from our way of conferring
it," that is, the service of seven priests, since the Greeks administer
the sacrament in this way.
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