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chrism
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chrism, chrisom
a mixture of olive oil and balsam used for sacramental anointing in the Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches


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It is the first time she has seen it written and she doesn't recall hearing it before, and being neither a sage nor an ignoramus, she knows that "oli" has a connection with oil, with the holy oils, moreover, which is to say, oil.
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