70 years ago today - Jul 29, 1947

A Quorum of the Twelve letter to the general Relief Society presidency states that women should seek blessings of health from priesthood holders and not from other women. This officially ends more than a century of women's anointing and sealing blessings of health on other women and sometimes on men.

[Source: The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database ( http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase )]]

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