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They all ate and were filled. They took up twelve baskets full of that which remained left over from the broken pieces.
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Verse 20. And they did all eat, and were filled. This miraculous multiplication of the loaves was effected on a Thursday evening—an excellent figure of the blessed Eucharist. On the next morning, Friday, he cured the sick at Genesareth, and arrived at Capharnaum for the first vespers of the sabbath; where, in the Synagogue, he made his promise of the holy Eucharist, which he instituted on a Thursday evening, the eve of his death. See Evangile médité. Tom. iii, p. 425.
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