Eucharist

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At the Holy Mass (Greek Eucharist = thanksgiving, prayer of thanks), wine and bread have a mystical significance in the Christian church as a sacrament of the Last Supper instituted by Jesus on the eve of his death on the cross. King Melchisedech, mentioned in the book of Genesis in the story of Abraham, is regarded as a symbolic forerunner and one of the oversized bottles of champagne is named after him. In the sacrificial rituals described in the Old Testament of the Bible, the Jews used wine as a symbol of prosperity, atonement for guilt and as a sign of worship to God. Animal blood, on the other hand, was regarded as a symbol of life and was returned to God by spilling it.

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