ANOTHER CHAPEL, IN WHICH ARE PRESERVED THE LORD'S CUP, AND THE SPONGE FROM WHICH HE SUCKED VINEGAR, WHEN HE HUNG ON THE TREE.
(1) There is a chapel set between the church of Golgotha and the Martyrium, and it contains the Lord's Cup which he blessed, and gave with his own hands during the supper which he had with the apostles on the day before he suffered. This is a silver cup, it holds a French quart, and it is designed with a pair of handles one on each side. (2) Inside the Cup is the very Sponge they "filled with vinegar and put upon hyssop", when they crucified the Lord "and brought it to his mouth" <John 19:29>. (3) It is said that it was from this cup that the Lord drank when he ate with the disciples after the resurrection. Holy Arculf saw it, and venerated it by touching it with his hand through a hole in the pierced door of the rehquary where it is kept. The whole population of the city makes pilgrimage to this Cup with the greatest reverence.
(transl. Wilkinson)
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