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Adamnan's De Locis Sanctis (Author: Adamnan of Iona)
Chapter/toc 24
CONCERNING THE SPOT IN WHICH THE LORD
BLESSED THE FIVE LOAVES AND TWO FISHES
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Our friend Arculf, often mentioned, came to this place, a level grassy
plain which has never been tilled from the day our Saviour filled five
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thousand in it with five loaves and two fishes. There are no buildings to
be seen in it. Arculf saw a few stone columns only, lying on the brink of
the fountain, the one from which it is said the people drank on the day
on which the Lord refreshed them with such a repast. The place is on
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the other shore of the sea of Galilee, facing the city of Tiberias which
bounds it on the south.