Olive oil Cf., Allab., De Cousens, bk. iii., c. 16; Cyril of Jerus., Catech. Myst. 2. is employed in baptism as a significant of our anointing, Reading, χρίσιν. Variant, χάριν. and as making us anointed, and as announcing to us through the Holy Spirit God’s pity: for it was the fruit of the olive that the dove brought to those who were saved from the flood. Gen. viii. 11.