For hundreds of years theologians of all faiths have been grappling with the fundamental question: What did Jesus Christ eat at the Last Supper? I am sure this question has been keeping you awake on many a night.

I have solved it?

Recently, Barbara and I enjoyed a brief stay in Lima, Peru, - a greatly improved and cleaned-up city. This time we explored the great Spanish colonial treasures in downtown Lima, especially the 16th C. monastery of San Francisco. This is a beautiful edifice embellished with huge paintings of the school of Rubens and Murillo, lovely wood carvings and acres of hand painted tile - all brought in from Spain by galleon to Panama, carted on mule-back across the Isthmus, then on another ship down the coast to Peru. The timbers, by the way, of this huge complex were carted in by ship from Colombia!

Under the monastery are miles of catacombs piled with the bones of 20,000 monks and Spanish inhabitants - but, that's another story.....

Anyway, exploring this monastery we came to the huge refectory, one wall of which is covered by an immense oil painting of the Last Supper that was created in Peru.

Here it is: