Origin of the Eucharist Origin of the Eucharist Church teaching places the origin of the Eucharist in the Last Supper of Jesus with his disciples, at which he is believed to have taken bread and given it to his disciples, telling them to eat of it, because it was his body, and to have taken a cup and given it to his disciples, telling them to drink of it because it was the cup of the covenant in his blood. The earliest extant written account of a Christian "eucharistia" (Greek: thanksgiving) is that in the First Epistle to the Corinthians (around AD 55), in
Ceremonial shield from the Tombs of Vergina to instead propose that it was used for religious or festive purposes. Other opine that the shield belonged to Alexander's brother, Philip III Arrhidaios, who is believed to have been buried inside Tomb II. Critics have stated that this theory is also faulty, as Phillip III was not a warrior and as such, the shield and the rest of the panoply have little reason to rest in his tomb. The ceremonial shield is in the basic form of a hoplon (or aspis) but with more ornate decoration and is made of wood, leather, glass, gold, and ivory. The front of