Iconography of The Holy Chalice
The iconic significance of the Chalice grew during the Early Middle Ages. In the fourteenth-century frescoes of the church at the Öja, Gotland (illustration, right), when Jesus prays in the Garden of Gethsemane, it is a prefigured apparition of the Holy Chalice that stands at the top of the mountain, illustrating the words "Let this cup be taken from me". Together with the halo-enveloped Hand of God and the haloed figure of Jesus, the halo image atop the chalice, as if of a consecrated communion wafer, completes the Trinity by embodying the Holy Spirit.
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