After the initial gift of sacred furnishings, a doctrina had to manage on its own. The friars learned to make do. Resourceful Francisco Pareja and Pedro Ruiz made their own chalices out of lead and got by with one set of vestments between them (Pareja, 1614). The neophytes for their part learned that being a Christian called for beeswax and little bells. "With regard to the question of furnishings, despite their poverty, they are accustomed to bring some deer skins, in order to buy wax, for the burial of the dead; in other parts, by means of some arrobas of maize, and machos, for so they call the pigs, they have gathered enough to purchase some small bells (Pareja, 1614). [Note: The 34 doctrinas in Florida in 1681 among them owned 238 "little bells, some with stands and others without, to ring the sanctus," and 92 "bells to ring the mass" (Inventory, 1681). The burden of acquiring and guarding sacra was matched by the burden of keeping the doctrina in religous supplies, for the god of Spaniards made no concessions to practicality and could not be adored in a cake of Indian corn. The rituals of Catholicism, a religion that evolved in the Mediterranean, associated "decent worship" with grape wine, wheat flour, olive oil, beeswax, incense, and linen. The wine for the Eucharist was made from the pure, untrodden, naturally fermented juice of grapes, or failing that, of reconstituted raisins. The host was an unleavened wafer made from white wheat flour and pure water. In the Latin rite anyone could bake the wafer who had access to the wafer irons, round presses (large for the priest, small for the communicants) that marked the wafer with the letters "I.H.S." or a crucifix. Pure olive oil was the basis of the holy oils (oil for the sick, oil for the catechumens, and oil of the chrism) blessed by the bishop at a special Mass on Maundy Thursday. Olive oil was also used in the lamp of the sanctuary. Candles of pure beeswax were used in Church ceremonies from baptism to burial. The simplest Mass required two lighted white wax candles on the altar, and the amount of wax expended increased with the solemnity or joyousness of the occasion, excepting the Easter vigil, when a single large paschal candle stood watch on the gospel side of the altar. Incense, a vegetable gum or resin, was burned in portable censers during a High Mass and other special ceremonies. By tradition five large grains of incense were fastened to the paschal candle. White linen was required for the officiating priest's amice and alb, the three cloths blessed by a bishop that covered the altar during Mass, and the unblessed waxed cloth that protected the altarstone. The problem of maintaining, in the frontier colony of Florida, a regular and sufficient supply of these six necessities-wine, flour, oil, wax, incense, and linen-was to preoccupy missionaries, secular clergy, governors, royal officials, and caciques and influence the course of trade and agriculture. (Bushnell SS)