In 1660, a chalice and paten were made by a London silversmith and shipped to the Jamestown Church. The chalice, or cup, held wine for communion. The paten, or plate, was for the bread. The communion ...

Pastor Matt Doan of Calvary Church Santa Ana, in Southern California, pours grape juice into individual plastic cups, each about half the size of a shot glass. He fits them into deep silver trays, in ...

We return to the Back Roads of the South Shore Symposium's, Coastal Colony: The Seventeenth Century on the South Shore, and take up again with Stephen O'Neill's lecture, Plymouth Colony in 10 Objects.

Evidence is presented which indicates that bacteria swabbed on the polished surface of the silver chalice die off rapidly. Experiments on the transmission of test organisms from one person to another ...