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Archive Home > 2008 > December > 27 > The bread of life, baked in Rhode Island

The bread of life, baked in Rhode Island

Family company provides the bulk of communion bread in the U.S., and the business keeps growing

By Katie Zezima / The Bulletin
December 27, 2008

GREENVILLE, R.I. — To the Cavanagh family, the product they make at a nondescript plant here is just bread and water. But to millions at churches around the world, it is a sacred offering.

From a purely economic point of view, it is something that is almost just as rare: a seemingly....

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