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A chum of mine, a Linconlnshireman with a wry sense of humour, wished me a Happy Saint Sexburga's Day today. Never having heard of the old dear, I was quite certain that he was pulling me leg. But no. There was such a saint and today is her feast day. http://www.britannia.com/bios/saints/sexburga.html
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Whew--buncha strange names there, Father Steve! Though I was pleased to see the ref. to Kent, as I have a fondness for it. But--is the following use of the word 'translated' correct?
...during her rule, she translated her sister's body into an old Roman sarcophagus brought from nearby Grantchester.
Also--mayhap I'll do a bit of research on Grantchester. If it's the same one Rupert Brooke wrote about 1300 years later--wow.
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is the following use of the word 'translated' correct?
Pretty much. Translate etymologically means to 'carry over; transfer'. In fact translatus is the perfect passive participle of transfero 'to carry over, convey, transplant'. If you read hagiographies, those saints' bones are always getting translated somewhere: like from the Holy Land to Europe.
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oops but my reaction to sexburga-- was WOW, SEX and Burgers in one.. two of my favorite experiences together.. Mmmm, sex burgers....(dooling like Homer while at the same time leering salatiously...)
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In physics, translate means to move from one place to another. In ecclesiology, translate means to move from one see to another, as in "the Bishop of Boston was translated to New Orleans." In hagiology, translate means to carry the bones of a deceased saint from one burial site to another.
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WOW, SEX and Burgers in one..
You want fries with that?
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Ok; thanks. So what are hagiographies and what is hagiology, please? Something to do with saints, I'll bet. Hagi...magi? Is there a relationship there?
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hagio- = saint or holy
hagiocracy = government by the priesthood
hagiographer = someone who writes about saints
hagiolatry = the worship of saints
hagiologist = someone who studies saints
hagiophobia = fear of or aversion to saints or holy things
hagioscope = an opening in an interior church wall to afford a view of the high altar
hagiotherapy = medical treatment involving prayer, visits to shrines and/or contact with relics or holy objects
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In ecclesiology, translate means to move from one see to another
Thanks, Padre. I'd forgotten about the diocesan meaning of translate.
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hagiographyMy favorite hagiographer, and a best seller during the middle ages, is Jacobus de Voragine of Genoa. He wrote the Golden Legend: full of saints and all things saintly. Bill Caxton edited an early English edition in the late 15 century. Should be available online. Yup: http://www.ccel.org/ccel/voragine/goldleg1.all.html
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