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

At 04:49 05/09/03, Padraic wrote:
>--- Isidora Zamora <isidora@...> wrote:
>
> > In ecclesiastical usage (Eastern Orthodox
> > anyway), to translate the relics
> > of a Saint is to move them from one resting
> > place to a different one.  For
> > me, this usage is not archaic.  I hear the word
> > 'translation' used with
> > that meaning probably at least once a week.
>
>Do you move your relics around thát much? I don't
>think the Western Church has a particular word
>for that action. Or if they do, it's not in
>common use.
The word is indeed "translation" in the Western Church too.  (I once
proofread and indexed an article involving an alleged translation of the
bones of St Dunstan from Canterbury to Glastonbury.)

Ian