The Chalice is used to hold the consecrated wine during the celebration of the Mass.

This chalice, in the Gothic Revival Style, was given by Catherine Cummings to St. John Cathedral on Christmas Day, 1876. The symbols of the four evangelists are mounted on the four lobes of the base. The Stylized grapes are an apt reference to the wine used at Mass. Above each symbol of the evangelists stands -- in the stem of the cup -- a small statuette of the gospel writer. Notice the youthful figure of John the Evangelist, the patron of the Cathedral, holding his hand in blessing over a cup. The node had enamels of chrubs and a cross. The cup is surrounded by adoring angels which frame the portrait enamels of Christ, the virguin Mary, St. Joseph and Pope Pious IX, the Roman Pontif at the time the chalice was made. The base of the paten shows the triumphant Lamb of God with the inscription: Living Bread and Lamb of God -- both quotes from the Gospel of John.