The flaming chalice is the internationally recognised symbol of the Unitarian movement. During the Second World War, an American Unitarian, Reverend Charles Joy, was stationed in Lisbon to help refugees escaping from Nazism. He commissioned a Czech refugee and cartoonist, Hans Deutsh, to design a visual image to represent Unitarianism to the world. So the chalice symbol came into being.

 Edmund Kell Unitarian Church, Southampton, England The flaming chalice is the internationally recognised symbol of the Unitarian movement. During the Second World War, an American Unitarian, Reverend Charles Joy, was stationed in Lisbon to help refugees escaping from Nazism. He commissioned a Czech refugee and cartoonist, Hans Deutsh, to design a visual image to represent Unitarianism to the world. So the chalice symbol came into being.