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Re: to translate (was: Re: I'M BACK!!! :))

From:Isidora Zamora <isidora@...>
Date:Tuesday, September 9, 2003, 15:43
At 05:11 PM 9/8/03 -0700, you wrote:
>--- Isidora Zamora <isidora@...> wrote: > > > >Do you move your relics around thát much? > > > > Maybe be do. In any case, whenever we do, the > > event is commemorated in the > > calendar. I think that some of the reason that > > I hear the term used in > > that sense at least once a week is because we > > buy a calandar every year > > that contains *all* the Saints commemorated on > > each day. > >Well, saint calendars are not a surprise - that >you hear about or discuss móving their relics is >what surprises me!
Well, the relics of three Metropolitans of Moscow were translated on this day, if I understood the calendar correctly last night. For whatever reason, there are translations all over the calendar. It gets commemmorated.
> > Whenever relics are translated or opened (or > > rediscovered), the date of it > > is remembered and commemorated in the calendar. > >Ah, I think I see: these are ancient or at least >historical translations. You're not doing it now; >just commemorating past events. That makes more >sense.
It's something that we still do, as far as I know, but it's not something that happens very often. Isidora