The Eucharistic prayer was split in two so that Eucharistic bread and wine were shared immediately after the words of institution (This is my Body.

Offertories are sung during the offering of Eucharistic bread and wine.

Anglo-Saxon and early-medieval Irish missionaries took the idea of a viaticum literally, carrying the Eucharistic bread and oil with them everywhere.

The same convention is still commonly used in the inscriptions on religious icons and the stamps used to mark the eucharistic bread in eastern churches.

Christ's divine attributes are shared by the eucharistic bread via his body.

A six-foot-tall (2 m) monstrance, for showing the Eucharistic bread to believers for prayer and contemplation, crowns the altar.

At last, it came time for Communion, the breaking of the Eucharistic bread.

In the late fourteenth century, special stone constructions for the Eucharistic bread began to be built, especially in northern Europe.

Her gaze is directed toward the tabernacle below, which contains the consecrated eucharistic bread.

Although Calvin rejected adoration of the Eucharistic bread and wine as "idolatry" later Reformed Christians have argued otherwise.