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Review

Holly Sacrament: the medicine of spiritual immortality or a vehicle for contamination?


Abstract

The Holy Communion is the oldest Christian practice, through which a gathered group of people partake bread and wine with a shared spoon. The pandemic of COVID-19 produced unexpected social instability and chaos. In Greece, a recent bishop’s death from COVID-19 re-awaked the issue of infection transmission by using a common chalice and spoon. This review evaluates the available medical literature on this topic from the beginning of the pandemic until today.

Keywords: COVID-19, Eastern Orthodoxy, infections

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Published on
2021-06-01

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CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0