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The Last Supper
1- A fresco painted by Leonardo da Vinci depicting Jesus and his disciples at the moment Jesus announces that one of them has betrayed him. ( See under “The Bible.” )
The Last Supper
2- The traditional Passover (see also Passover ) meal that Jesus ate with the Apostles the night before his death. At this supper, according to the Gospels , Jesus blessed bread and broke it, telling the disciples , “Take, eat; this is my body.” He then passed a cup of wine to them, saying, “This is my blood.” Jesus' words refer to the Crucifixion he was about to suffer in order to atone for humankind's sins. He told the Apostles, “Do this in remembrance of me.”
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Malky performed with his band The Vindscreen Vipers in the same Scottish folk clubs as Connolly, and together they created The Big Yin cartoon strip for Scotland's Sunday Mail newspaper - taking the name from a famous Connolly routine at the time which reimagined the Last Supper as taking place in Glasgow.
Meanwhile, some viewers were upset by a scene involving drag queens which many interpreted as a reference to the Last Supper, but artistic director Thomas Jolly said was a reference to pagan gods.
Folklorist Anne Marie Lagram - herself a "strong believer" - also previously told BBC News that theories behind "unlucky 13" include the number of people present at the Last Supper or the number of witches to make a coven.
The most fascinating is the complex compositional analysis of the figures in Leonardo’s second most famous painting, “The Last Supper,” that vast fresco in a communal dining room of a Dominican convent in Milan.
As noted by Entertainment Weekly, she was among those who criticized part of the Paris Olympics opening ceremony — which paid homage to the international sports competitions' ancient Greek origins — for trafficking in "satanism" and what critics thought were references to DaVinci's "The Last Supper."
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