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Fractio Panis (English: Breaking of Bread) is the name given to a fresco in the Greek Chapel (Capella Greca) in the Catacomb of Priscilla, situated on the Via Salaria Nova in Rome. The fresco depicts seven persons at a table, possibly all women, due to the long skirts (men's wouldn't come past the calf), veil, and all of their upswept hair.
Lambrecht says, "Each event culminates with a ritual, the breaking and distributing of bread at Emmaus and the baptism of the Ethiopian along the road. What remains as a common theme in both stories is the necessary hermeneutical connection between the Scriptures and the Jesus event.
Come and eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mixed. Leave ignorance and you shall live. They recognised the Lord. Alleluia. In the breaking of the bread. Alleluia. Alleluia. The bread which we break is the Body of the Lord; the cup which we bless is the Blood of the Lord: a sole and unique Mystery. They recognised the Lord ...
Jesus Breaking Bread. His public works of art include the bronze sculpture Jesus Breaking Bread, commissioned in 1976 for the Eucharistic Congress and located on the grounds of Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peters and Paul in Philadelphia, [2] and two life size figures for the Dream Garden in the lobby of the ARA Tower. [3]
21 When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in the spirit, and testified, and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me. 22 The disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom he spake. 23 There was at the table reclining in Jesus' bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved.
Images of Jesus tend to show ethnic characteristics similar to those of the culture in which the image has been created. Beliefs that certain images are historically authentic, or have acquired an authoritative status from Church tradition, remain powerful among some of the faithful, in Eastern Orthodoxy, Lutheranism, Anglicanism, and Roman ...
The breaking of the bread represents the broken body of Christ. [3] After breaking the bread and the conclusion of the hymn, the priesthood holder kneels and says a set prayer on the broken bread. The bread is passed to the congregation by priesthood holders, usually by deacons. The prayer on the bread is found in the Book of Mormon and ...
The Head of Christ, also called the Sallman Head, is a 1940 portrait painting of Jesus of Nazareth by Warner Sallman (1892–1968). As an extraordinarily successful work of Christian popular devotional art, [1] it had been reproduced over half a billion times worldwide by the end of the 20th century. [2]