The many images of Jesus eating with the Twelve Apostles on the night before he died might dominate our imagination. But the gospels suggest that a wider circle of followers shared his last Passover meal – and it is unthinkable that women were excluded.
21 March 2024, The Tablet
Always at the table
Were women at the Last Supper?
Mary is in the bottom left corner of Fra Angelico’s Communion of the Apostles and the Last Supper.
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