Editing Chalice (section)

====The Holy Chalice====
[[File:Chalice Burgos VandA 132-1873.jpg|thumb|upright|Chalice with the inscription: "Sanguis meus vere est potus" ('My blood is drink indeed'; John 6:55, [[King James Version|KJV]]), made for the church St John the Baptist in Salinas, Spain. [[Silver-gilt]], 1549]]

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In [[Christian tradition]], the [[Holy Chalice]] is the vessel which Jesus used at the [[Last Supper]] to serve the wine. New Testament texts make no mention of the cup except within the context of the [[Last Supper]] and give no significance whatsoever to the object itself. Herbert Thurston in the ''[[Catholic Encyclopedia]]'' 1908 concluded that "No reliable tradition has been preserved to us regarding the vessel used by Christ at the Last Supper. In the sixth and seventh centuries pilgrims to Jerusalem were led to believe that the actual chalice was still venerated in the church of the Holy Sepulchre, having within it the sponge which was presented to Our Saviour on Calvary." Several surviving standing cups of precious materials are identified in local traditions as the Chalice.