Eucharist

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Also Known As	Holy Communion • Lord’s Supper

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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

Andreas Karlstadt

German religious leader

Humbert of Silva Candida

French cardinal

Berengar Of Tours

French theologian

Peter Martyr Vermigli

Peter Martyr Vermigli

Italian religious reformer

Ratramnus

Benedictine theologian

Saint Paschasius Radbertus

French monk and writer

John of Paris

French theologian

Saint Sarapion

Egyptian monk

Thomas Merton

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