Coenaculum

COENACULUM, in Greek, Hyperoon, signifies properly an upper Room, or an apartment wherein people generally eat. Our Saviour, the evening before his Passion, directed his Disciples to go and provide a supper for him in Jerusalem, and told them that they would find a large upper Room furnished. Cœnaculum grande stratum, a Dining-room, with Beds for the accommodation of the Guests at Table. In after Ages there was a great Room shewn at Jerusalem, which was converted into a Church by the Empress Helena, where it was supposed that our Saviour eat his last Supper, and instituted the Eucharist. But there is great reason to question, whether this Room were preserved, when Jerusalem was so totally ruined by the Romans.

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