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According to Christian traditions, Table of Jesus (Mensa Christi) is the name given to three large flat rocks on which Jesus is said to have dined with his disciples, at Tabgha and Nazareth.

Overview

In the Gospel tradition there are several occasions in which Jesus is said to have had outdoors meals with his disciples. The tradition identifies some flat rocks as the actual places in which such events occurred.

Church of the Multiplication, Tabgha [Israel]

Under the altar of the modern church is a block of limestone found during excavation, that is venerated as the stone on which the miraculous meal was laid.

The modern church, consecrated in 1982 by the Benedictines, rests on the site of two earlier churches--a small 4th-century chapel and a larger 5th-century Byzantine church (destroyed in 614). The archaeological excavations, which began in the 1930s, have recovered large sections of the mosaic pavement of the Byzantine Church.

Church of the Primacy of St. Peter, Tabgha [Israel]

The church contains a projection of limestone rock in front of the present altar which is venerated as the spot where the Gospel of John (21:1-24) said Jesus to have laid out a breakfast of bread and fish for the Apostles, and told Peter to "Feed my sheep", after his resurrection.

A church seems to have existed on the spot since the 4th century, until its destruction in 1263. In 1933 the Franciscans built the current church which incorporates some of the ruins of the previous building.

Mensa Christi Church, Nazareth [Israel]

According to tradition, a slab of chalk inside this church at Nazareth was the rock on which Jesus dined with the disciples after his resurrection. The Franciscans initially built a chapel at this site in the second half of the 18th century. The current church, a renovation of the earlier chapel, was completed in 1861 and fully restored in 2000.

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