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19th-century chalice returned to Bethlehem church after missing for almost 100 years

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This Sunday, sitting on the alter at Trinity Episcopal Church, was a beautiful golden chalice. It had been nearly 100 years since that happened, but now it's home.

The chalice had been a gift to the church. "The chalice was given to Trinity Church sometime in 1887 in memory of Edward Coppee Mitchell, a lawyer from Philadelphia whose family had associations with Bethlehem," said Reverend Canon Clifford Carr.

The chalice even engraved with Mitchell's name and Trinity Church. But a few decades later, it was gone. Reverend Carr telling 69 News, "In 1927 there's a note in the parish records that the chalice was missing."

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