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Also Known As Holy Communion • Lord’s Supper

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Eucharist
The Last Supper
Tintoretto: Last Supper
Nikitari, Cyprus: Asinou Church frescoes
Greek Orthodoxy
Huldrych Zwingli
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Huldrych Zwingli
Huldrych Zwingli
Swiss religious leader
Humbert of Silva Candida
French cardinal
Andreas Karlstadt
German religious leader
Berengar Of Tours
French theologian
Ratramnus
Benedictine theologian
Peter Martyr Vermigli
Peter Martyr Vermigli
Italian religious reformer
Saint Paschasius Radbertus
French monk and writer
John of Paris
French theologian
Saint Sarapion
Egyptian monk
Thomas Merton, 1959
Thomas Merton
American writer

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