SCENE OF MIRACLE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17918, 24 October 1932, Page 10

SCENE OF MIRACLE

LOAVES AND FISHES SITE UNEARTHED BY A PRIEST VATICAN CITY, Aug, 31. Church archaelogists believe they have found at Tiberias, on the Sea of Galileo the spot 'where Jesus multiplied five loaves and two fishes to feed a multitude. According to tradition, a church was built at the scene of the miracle, and church ruins have been uncovered by n German priest, I’uther Evarist Andrea Mader, director of the German Oriental Institute at Jerusalem. • In an article to lie published in the lllustrazione Vatieana a Jesuit, Father Ohfysologus Hpcllueei, announces that the discovery corresponds to all known religious history.

Ruins of a basilica were found by Father Mader under 7ft of clay. A largo area of fine vividly colored mosaics was well preserved.

The ruins show the basilica, which has three names, was 170 ft. long, with a (itift. transept. Under the altar is a stone supposed to mark the spot of the miracle.

Mossaics in front of this stone depict serpents, sea birds, plants and lotus flowers, while behind the altar are shown loaves of bread and two fishes beside a sort of basket, presumably referring to the baskets in which Christ told his disciples to gather the remains of food after the multitude had been fed.