The Chalice and the Host

Dominus spes mea.

Zum Andenken an

REV. PETER

TARRILLION.

Pfarrer von Fredericksburg.

Geb.

Zu Edlinger. Lothringen 1821.

Zum Priestergeweitht in Calveston 1855.

GEST.

MAERZ 25, 19oo.

R.I. P.

The white marble gravestone of Reverend Peter Tarrillion in the St. Joseph Society Cemetery in San Antonio, Texas, displays a chalice with the wafer in the quatrefoil in the top of the monument.  The chalice and the wafer represent the blood and the body of Christ.

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