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the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Coenaculum
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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the term applied to the eating-room of a Roman house in which the supper (coena) or latest meal was taken. It was sometimes placed in an upper storey and reached by an external staircase. The Last Supper in the New Testament was taken in the Coenaculum, the "large upper room" cited in St Mark (xiv. 15) and St Luke (xxii. 12).
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Coenaculum'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​c/coenaculum.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Coenaculum'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​c/coenaculum.html. 1910.