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The name is an Arabic mispronunciation of the original Greek Heptapegon, meaning Seven Springs. Five springs are still discernible but they are salty. This explains why they never attracted largescale settlement. One tradition has it that job was healed of his ills in these therapeutic springs. But Tabgha is more famous in Christian tradition as the site of the Multiplication of Loaves and Fishes. 1% memory of this extraordinary event, a basilica was built here in the 4th century, superceded by another in the 5th century, and it is still possible to admire parts of their splendid mosaic floors enclosed in the new church of Tabgha. Animals and plants are represented with an incredibly refined sense of color and execution. In Tabgha the Benedictine order founded a monastery next to which is the Franciscan church of the Primacy of St. Peter, where Christ is said to have reappeared to his disciples for the third time after the resurrection
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