The Apostles ate some more vegetables and lettuce.

The countenance of our Divine Saviour bore an indescribable expression of serenity and recollection, greater than I had ever before seen.

He bade the Apostles forget all their cares.

The Blessed Virgin also, as she sat at table with the other women, looked most placid and calm.

When the other women came up, and took hold of her veil to make her turn round and speak to them, her every movement expressed the sweetest self-control and placidity of spirit.
At first Jesus conversed lovingly and calmly with his disciples, but after a while he became grave and sad: 'Amen, amen, I say to you, that one of you is about to betray me:' he said, he that dippeth his hand with me in the dish' (Matt.