FLAGON

A ve el used to contain the wine, before and at the consecration, in the holy eucharist. In the marginal rubric in the prayer of consecration, the priest is ordered “to lay his hand upon every ve el (be it chalice or flagon) in which there is any wine to be consecrated,” but in the same prayer he is told to take the cup only in his hand; and the rubric before the form of administering the cup stands thus, “the minister that deliver eth the cup.” The distinction then between the flagon and the cup or chalice will be, that the latter is the ve el in which the consecrated wine is administered; the flagon, that in which some of the wine is placed for consecration, if there be more than one ve el used.