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When the unction is received privately, the full service is often not performed, but simply the anointing itself is done along with a few prayers.
==Sources==
One of the earliest written records of Holy Unction is recorded in the [[Euchologion of Serapion of Thmuis]]. This is extand at the Great Lavra of [[Mount Athos]].
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