Sephania
3rd May 2005, 03:27 PM
Look what I found on aish.com
http://www.judaicawebstore.com/aish/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=ag-127
Click on more images to see a close-up.
I found this very strange, yet exciting, I understand this is from an acheological site in Israel but it is representing Yeshuas miracle of the fish and loaves, the two fishes and five loaves from Matt 14 for one telling. If you go here you can see this closer and the loaves even have crosses on them http://www.carolinazanelli.it/breadfish.htm
Here is the actual mosaic found in a Byzantine church in the Galil
http://64.30.203.214/photoweb/Family/2000.3%20Israel/images/tn_mar8_0008_JPG.jpg
This is the floor in front of an exposed rock in a town called Tabgha :But the aspect of Tabgha which principally arouses the interest of visitors is the existence there of two churches commemorating two well-known episodes in the life of Jesus, the multiplication of the loaves and fishes and the third appearance to his disciples after the Resurrection. The Church of the Loaves and Fishes is a modern building standing on the site of a fourth century Byzantine church, built where Jesus was sitting while he performed one of his best known miracles. The ancient church, already damaged by earthquakes in the sixth century, was completely destroyed a century later. All trace and even memory of it was lost, until Benedictine monks rediscovered, during the last century, its very interesting vestiges.
The interior of the basilica follows the classical pattern for this type of building: nave and aisles, transept, apse and narthex. That makes this church one of the sights most frequently visited by tourists is the splendid mosaic decoration. Counted among the most refined examples of the art of mosaic in the Holy Land, the mosaics of the Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes stand out for their vibrant colors and for the fine execution of decorative motifs, such as the animals and plants typical of the surroundings of the lake. But the most, it depicts symbolically the miracle after which the church is named: it shows a basket full of loaves between two fishes. Below the high alter is a stone marking the place where Christ put down the two fishes and five loaves.
Click here to see image of altar with exposed stone and the fishes and loaves mosaic (http://www.stanford.edu/~spqrsyc/imgs/tagghachurchinside.jpg)
(http://www.stanford.edu/~spqrsyc/imgs/tagghachurchinside.jpg)
Now I can understand why Others would be selling this artifact replica, but on aish.com?:scratch: Can someone say Baruch Hashem, Halleluyah!:clap:
Revered by Christians http://www.travelnet.co.il/israel/Tiberias/tib17-TABGHA.htm
http://www.judaicawebstore.com/aish/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=ag-127
Click on more images to see a close-up.
I found this very strange, yet exciting, I understand this is from an acheological site in Israel but it is representing Yeshuas miracle of the fish and loaves, the two fishes and five loaves from Matt 14 for one telling. If you go here you can see this closer and the loaves even have crosses on them http://www.carolinazanelli.it/breadfish.htm
Here is the actual mosaic found in a Byzantine church in the Galil
http://64.30.203.214/photoweb/Family/2000.3%20Israel/images/tn_mar8_0008_JPG.jpg
This is the floor in front of an exposed rock in a town called Tabgha :But the aspect of Tabgha which principally arouses the interest of visitors is the existence there of two churches commemorating two well-known episodes in the life of Jesus, the multiplication of the loaves and fishes and the third appearance to his disciples after the Resurrection. The Church of the Loaves and Fishes is a modern building standing on the site of a fourth century Byzantine church, built where Jesus was sitting while he performed one of his best known miracles. The ancient church, already damaged by earthquakes in the sixth century, was completely destroyed a century later. All trace and even memory of it was lost, until Benedictine monks rediscovered, during the last century, its very interesting vestiges.
The interior of the basilica follows the classical pattern for this type of building: nave and aisles, transept, apse and narthex. That makes this church one of the sights most frequently visited by tourists is the splendid mosaic decoration. Counted among the most refined examples of the art of mosaic in the Holy Land, the mosaics of the Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes stand out for their vibrant colors and for the fine execution of decorative motifs, such as the animals and plants typical of the surroundings of the lake. But the most, it depicts symbolically the miracle after which the church is named: it shows a basket full of loaves between two fishes. Below the high alter is a stone marking the place where Christ put down the two fishes and five loaves.
Click here to see image of altar with exposed stone and the fishes and loaves mosaic (http://www.stanford.edu/~spqrsyc/imgs/tagghachurchinside.jpg)
(http://www.stanford.edu/~spqrsyc/imgs/tagghachurchinside.jpg)
Now I can understand why Others would be selling this artifact replica, but on aish.com?:scratch: Can someone say Baruch Hashem, Halleluyah!:clap:
Revered by Christians http://www.travelnet.co.il/israel/Tiberias/tib17-TABGHA.htm