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On 21 December 2004, archaeologists reported finding in Kafr Kanna "pieces of large stone jars of the type the Gospel says Jesus used when he turned water into wine". [30] But American scientists excavating the rival site of Khirbet Qana north of it, also claimed to have found pieces of stone jars from the time of Jesus. [ 30 ]
Cana is very positively located in Shepherd's Historical Atlas, 1923: modern scholars are less sure.. Among Christians and other students of the New Testament, Cana is best known as the place where, according to the Fourth Gospel, Jesus performed "the first of his signs", his first public miracle, the turning of a large quantity of water into wine at a wedding feast (John 2, John 2:1–11 ...
In Greek mythology, the Oenotropae (Ancient Greek: Οἰνοτρόπαι, "the women who change (into) wine") or Oenotrophae (Ancient Greek: Οἰνοτρόφαι, the "Winegrowers") were the three daughters of Anius and Dryope.
The Wedding at Cana (Italian: Nozze di Cana, 1562–1563), by Paolo Veronese, is a representational painting that depicts the biblical story of the Wedding at Cana, at which Jesus miraculously converts water into red wine (John 2:1–11).
Internal View. The Wedding Church at Cana [1] [2] [3] (Arabic: كنيسة الزفاف في كنا; Hebrew: כנסיית החתונה) or simply Wedding Church, also Franciscan Wedding Church, is a religious building of the Catholic Church located in the central part of the town of Kafr Kanna (Cana), [4] [self-published source] in Lower Galilee, located in northern Israel. [5]
The Oenotropae were sisters who had been blessed by Dionysus with the power to change water into wine, grass into wheat, and berries into olives. When the Greeks set off to conquer Troy , Agamemnon , finding their skill useful, abducted them, but they escaped and Dionysus turned them all into white doves in order to save them.
[9] [6] From the Mishnah and Talmuds, the common dilution rate for consumption by Jews was 3 parts water to 1 part wine (3:1 dilution ratio). [6] Wine in the ancient world had a maximum possible alcohol content of 11-12 percent before dilution and once diluted, the alcohol content was reduced to 2.75 or 3 percent. [6]
A legend says that while travelling, he gave all his food and drink to a beggar and as he refilled his flask from a stream, the water miraculously turned into wine. [5] It was his custom every night to go to the church of St. Giles, a little before midnight, and to assist at matins. Homobonus would remain until the morning Mass.