The Supper at Emmaus and Christ Feeding the Multitude

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about 1916 Three-light window. Main picture: He was made known to them in the breaking of bread; as told by the two that met the risen Christ on the road to Emmaus. Lower panel: I have compassion on the multitude; the story of Christ feeding the four thousand. technique: stained glass firm/studio: John Hall & Sons Church of St Peblig, Caernarfon, Gwynedd south wall of the chancel Signed: John Hall & Son. Dedication: (One pane of text was damaged in 2005 and covered in a piece of wood) and in loving memory of Elizabeth Gwen Roberts of Plas Maesincla who died in the year 1912. 'A fyno duw a fydded. The faculty for the window is dated July 1916.  (ObjectID=3878 ImageID=8363) Original File Name=PC230302.jpeg

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• Christ blessing the bread and fish brought by a boy - multiplication of loaves and fishes for a multitude of four or five thousand people - miracles of Christ  [Matthew 14:19; Mark 6:41; Luke 9:16; John 6:9-11; Matthew 15:36]
• the supper at Emmaus: Christ is recognized while blessing or breaking the bread  [Luke 24:30-31]

Richard Haslam, Julian Orbach and Adam Voelcker, The Buildings of Wales: Gwynedd (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009), p. 284.

Photo © Peter Jones