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Alcuin of York — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 6:1-14

Medieval A.D. 804

Alcuin of York · c. A.D. 735–804

“Sit down, i. e. lie down, as the ancient custom was, which they could do, as there was much grass in the place.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 6:1-14 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗

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