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Maundy-Thursday

Maundy-Thursday, is the Thursday in Passion week, which was called Maunday or Mandate-thursday, from the command which our Saviour gave his apostles to commemorate him in the Lord.s Supper, which he this day instituted; or from the new commandment which he gave them to love one another, after he had washed their feet as a token of his love to them.

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