Galahad, Perceval and Bors receive Mass from the Grail at the hands of the crucified Christ himself and 'it seemed as though the essence of all sweetness was housed within their bodies'. Its biblical origin has long been known, since it occurs in the Vulgate Old Testament, the standard text of the Middle Ages, in the form Galaad. The Grail is a symbol of grace, and grace is God's love for man. Through grace all man's spiritual desires may be satisfied, thus the Grail dispensed to every knight such meats and drinks as he best loved in the world. Then the Knights marveled, for that bishop was dead more than three hundred year tofore.
Angels appear bearing candles, a towel and the bleeding spear.
The bishop performs a mass in which a fiery childlike figure smites the bread and transforms it into a fleshy man. Christ reveals the identity of the holy vessel, the Sankgreal, to Galahad. Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur , a much later epic, dates to the mid-fifteenth Century. The Grail is taken away from Britain because of the sinfulness of the inhabitants. Galahad dies and the Grail is carried up into heaven.