A silver communion cup a cotton plantation owner's wife gave to a church she built for enslaved workers is returned.

She had a silver communion chalice made for the church and it was hidden away upon the breakout of the Civil War. Now over a century later one of her descendants returns the chalice to its home.

This communion chalice is made of unhallmarked silver. It was made secretly in about 1700. It was used by Jesuit Priests under the Vicar Apostolic of the Northern District to minister to the ...

To reverence our Lord’s sacramental presence, we use chalices and patens for the ... as an effort to affirm that the Eucharist was not a symbol or a ritual, but the living presence of Jesus ...