Four chalice veils, displayed on rotation for conservation purposes, embroidered with colored silk threads and gold and silver foil, the work of 16^th-18^thcentury Florentine craftsmen. Chalice veils cover the chalice and paten during Mass until the offertory and after communion. Their color matches that of the vestments worn by the priest according to the liturgy of the day. Two of the veils we see here are embroidered with the cross of Christ and the IHS trigram amidst decorative flowered branches. The other two depict the face of Christ surrounded by inscriptions in Latin, with the words He uttered when He instituted the Eucharist. During the Last Supper Christ gave the Apostles bread and wine, as his body and his blood, sacrificed for the salvation of men, and instructed them to repeat the ritual in "his memory".