According to Christian tradition, which differs from the apocryphal Gospels, the Chalice of Christ was kept by the apostles and taken by St. Peter to Rome.

It remained there until Pope Sixtus II asked St. Lawrence to hide it from the Roman persecution of Emperor Valerian in 258.

Before dying a martyr's death on a grill, St. Lawrence entrusted him to the legionary Precellius to take him to Huesca (Hispania), to his parents' home.

Once in Hispania, the Grail changed location several times until it was hidden in the Pyrenees in 713, during the Muslim invasion.

Its next documented appearance is in 1071, when the bishop of Jaca transferred it to the monastery of San Juan de la Peña.

In 1399 the Grail was given to King Martin I the Humane and from then on the Crown of Aragon took custody of it.

In 1424 King Alfonso the Magnanimous moved the court from Zaragoza to Valencia and in 1437 the Chalice was given to the Cathedral of Santa Maria.

In 1744 the Chalice fell to Canon Vicente Frígola and broke in two. It was repaired immediately, but the canon died of the displeasure.

The Chalice has a carved chalcedony cup of Hebraic design that studies date to the 1st century at the time of Herod the Great.

The foot is very posterior, with snake-shaped handles and a base also made of chalcedony. All adorned with pearls, precious stones and gold.