A Meal of Milk and Bread
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When in Bahá'í history
Paris (today: Paris, France)
During His third visit to Paris in 1913, some evenings ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s meal consisted only of a cup of milk and a piece of bread. He described it as a healthy meal, and recalled that Bahá’u’lláh had said that during His sojourn in Sulaymáníyyih His food was just milk most of the time, and sometimes milk and rice cooked together.
Source: H. M. Balyuzi, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá: The Centre of the Covenant of Bahá’u’lláh, p. 392.
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