Is this the tablecloth used at the Last Supper?

[Michie]

It is kept in the Chapel of the Relics of the Cathedral of Santa Maria de la Asuncion de Coria, Spain.

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Is this the tablecloth used at the Last Supper?

 

[Lazarus Short]

Very interesting - has anyone analyzed the tablecloth for pollen?

 

[Michie]

Very interesting - has anyone analyzed the tablecloth for pollen?

Even if it were tested for pollen it would still be unprovable that it was the actual table cloth at the Last Supper. The Shroud of Turin is more likely to be proven than a table cloth imo. I do love how sentimental the Church is though. She saves everything!

 

[Lazarus Short]

Even if it were tested for pollen it would still be unprovable that it was the actual table cloth at the Last Supper. The Shroud of Turin is more likely to be proven than a table cloth imo. I do love how sentimental the Church is though. She saves everything!

A pollen analysis might indicate where the cloth originated, as it did with the Shroud.

 

[Michie]

Yeah I agree. But the tablecloth does not have the other factors the shroud has.

A pollen analysis might indicate where the cloth originated, as it did with the Shroud.

 

[eastcoast_bsc]

Could you imagine if it was the actually tablecloth? I would be emotional just viewing it.

The relevancy for those who don't read is that it could actually be the tablecloth from which Christ ate the last supper. If that doesn't move one than nothing will.

 

[AvilaSurfer]

I hate to pour water on this idea, but I doubt tablecloths were used by poor Jews back then. Not to mention that historians are not even sure which room it was. There are several possibilities.

 

[Lazarus Short]

I hate to pour water on this idea, but I doubt tablecloths were used by poor Jews back then. Not to mention that historians are not even sure which room it was. There are several possibilities.

"Poor Jews" may not apply to Jesus, as His great-uncle was Joseph of Arimathea, one of the richest men of his time. Joseph had to be a relative to claim the body of Jesus, under Roman law.

 

[Knightindullarmor]

Interestingly, the cloth pictured appears to have similar stripes to the tablecloth painted by DaVinci. Most likely, this cloth would have covered the food with a more substantial cloth being used under the food to prevent mixing of any leven/risen crumbs from mixing with the Passover meal. The "upper room" was likely that of Joseph of Armathia, and the linen table cloth would also have been purchased by Joseph of Aramathia. It might also have been grabbed in a hurry as the finest cloth readily available to be pressed into service as what would be the fifth gospel, written in "tongues" (the language of science which transcends geographic dialects). If you do some research, 3rd and 4th century mass required use of a white linen "corpus" to cover the alter. Corpus... what a funny name to give the table cloth over which bread is broken in remembrance. The sacrifice which began with the last supper did not end on the cross - it came full circle with the Apostles breaking bread in remembrance over the very same "corpus" that served as the first Christian alter cloth. Gives much better understanding of the words spoken during the consecration when you consider the earliest masses were celebrated over the cloth that both caught our Lord's crumbs and bore stains of His barely dried blood. Not an original theory, but it does make mass make a lot more sense.

 

[Davidnic]

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