12" Walnut Sick Call Set With Antique Plated Corpus

12" Deluxe Furniture Grade Solid Wood Crucifix in a lacquered Walnut finish   Silver plated exquisitely detailed Jesus Corpus hand finished by Italian Artisans Matching "INRI" Banner   Overall size of Crucifix: 12" high by 7" across, with the wood being 1-5/8" wide   Includes Candles, Holy Oil Glass Bottle and Cotton Gift Boxed   Made in the USA/Italy   When a person is homebound, bedridden, or suffering from a severe ailment, Catholics are taught to call the priest. Decades ago the sacrament reserved for the very ill or dying was known as Extreme Unction (last anointing) or more commonly “Last Rites.” Today we know it as the Anointing of the Sick, and it is not given exclusively to those who are on their deathbed. It is one of the seven sacraments and invokes God’s divine aid for those suffering in a physical way.   In days when people more often died at home, there developed the custom of having a “sick-call” crucifix on hand for emergency visits by a priest. This type of crucifix wa