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Sen. Edward Kennedy receives Last Rites

Priest administers Sacrament at Kennedy's bedside

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Published Tuesday, August 25, 2009, 1:05 PM
Updated Wednesday, August 26, 2009, 3:23 PM

 

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Senator Ted Kennedy

IrishCentral has learned that Sen. Edward Kennedy has received the Last Rites from the Catholic Church as he continues to battle a deadly brain cancer.

Sources close to the family have confirmed that Kennedy, deeply religious like all the Kennedys, has been anointed by a priest who administered the Sacrament to him at his bedside.

Receiving the Last Rites, however, does not mean that the Lion of the Senate's death is imminent.

Religious Catholics often receive the Sacrament before serious surgery and when their health is at serious risk.

For instance, Kennedy's brother, President John F. Kennedy, received Last Rites at least three times before his death at at the hands of an assassin in Texas in November 1963.

  • Once in wartime when he was famously injured on PT109;
  • Once on the ocean liner Queen Mary in September 1947 which was bringing him home from London where he had been diagnosed with Addison disease and been hospitalized;
  • Again when he suffered a severe infection that temporarily put him into a coma.

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