Ananointing brush is aliturgicalbrush used in theByzantine Rite to administer one of the sacred oils:chrism,oil of catechumens, oroil of the sick.
InPost-Soviet Russia the anointing brush is used by the self-proclaimed "Orthodox psychotherapist" Grigorii Grigoriev in a ritual foralcoholic patients. Grigoriev has preserved some of Soviet psychiatristAlexander Dovzhenko's ritual structures but has replaced all biomedical representations with official religious elements fromRussian Orthodoxy. After consulting with the patients, Grigoriev reads a prayer over them inChurch Slavonic, then intones declaring them free of cravings for alcohol. The anointing brush is used to mark the conclusion the ritual by touching the patient upon their head with the brush.[1]
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