And they did eat, and were all filled: and there was taken up of fragments that remained to them twelve baskets.
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Aurelius Prudentius Clemens
AD 413
“Place,” he said, “in these twelve baskets all the fragments that remain.” Thousands at that feast reclining, with abundance had been fed On the five loaves they had eaten and two fishes multiplied. You, our bread, our true refection, neverfailing sweetness are. He can nevermore know hunger, who is at your banquet fed, Nourishing not our fleshly nature, but imparting lasting life. –.
