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Host

1910 New Catholic Dictionary

(Latin: hostia, hostage, victim)

Title of Our Lord as Victim for our sins, familiar in the hymn sung at Benediction of the Most Holy Sacrament, "O Salutaris Hostia," and used in the Mass at the oblation and immediately after the Consecration.

Bibliography Information
Entry for 'Host'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ncd/​h/host.html. 1910.