Communion wafers instead of loaves: A history

The Gospels are clear, after all: At the Last Supper, Jesus “took bread.” Of course, we know full well that what Jesus used must have been unleavened bread, a symbol of the Passover (a piece of information which, however, has not stopped numerous artists from painting the Last Supper imaginatively depicting an ordinary leavened loaf […]

Communion wafers instead of loaves: A history