A Byzantine chalice, Bible, or wood carving has a kind of heft, a hand-made brawniness. Yet the flickering of pattern and color appears to discharge its heaviness—its mortal weight.

Even more depressing, they say it's a lamp not a chalice. I think this issue is still on, though -- I think we can still talk about it." That the chalice is in London at all, however, is quite a feat.

London's Royal Academy of Arts will show 300 items, including manuscripts, icons, mosaic and jewels in the exhibition, Byzantine 330 to 1453. They include the Antioch Chalice, a silver gilt cup once ...

The byzantine intricacies of weddings, dowries, marriages and inheritances among the Roma communities of rural Romania are the focus of The Chalice — Of Sons And Daughters, a documentary ...

It was found in 1868, under a stone slab in Reerasta, near Ardagh, Co Limerick, with a second, much plainer bronze chalice and four silver brooches. Along with the somewhat later Derrynaflan ...