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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
5] the other shore of the sea of Galilee, facing the city of Tiberias which bounds it on the south.