Умножение хлебов Multiplication of loaves

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The modern church at Tabgha (En Sheva in Hebrew) near the Sea of ​ ​ Galilee, dedicated to the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes with which Jesus Christ fed the 5.000 hungry ("not counting women and children"), was built in the eighties of the last century on the foundations of a Byzantine church dating back to 350 from Christmas. The first church was destroyed by the Persians, and remains of mosaics with images of loaves and fish and a monolith found during excavations, on which loaves and fish are supposed to have been laid out. This stone is used in the new church as an altar. The mosaic depicts a pair of tilapia fish (St. Peter's fish) and a stack of four hearth loaves, the fifth, presumably, lay directly on the stone table. The only pity is that Jesus performed this miracle only once, I think that even now there would be many who need to repeat such a miracle.