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One of the Last Supper ‘greats’ arrives at National Gallery in time for Easter

March 28, 2024

Nicolas Poussin’s Eucharist, considered one of the greatest paintings of the Last Supper, has been acquired by the National Gallery in time for Easter. Eucharist (painted around 1637‒40) is one of a cycle of seven scenes Poussin did in the second half of the 1630s showing the Catholic Sacraments (those rites through which divine grace is

Why did Jesus refuse traditional painkiller before ‘horrific’ crucifixion?

March 25, 2024

“They offered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he refused it.” (Mark 15:23) St Mark records this detail of Jesus refusing wine mixed with myrrh before his crucifixion. This drink was a rudimentary painkiller and so the fact it was offered to Jesus implies an act of mercy to one about to undergo horrific pain.

Why were there no women at the Last Supper?

March 28, 2018

Jewish social convention would have dictated that women be present at a seder meal. So why did they not attend?

Why foot-washing still shocks us

March 17, 2016

For 2,000 years Christians have struggled to accept Jesus’s revolutionary gesture. The Pope’s Holy Thursday visits help to reveal the rite’s true meaning