porta viatico

English translation: pyx

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Spanish term or phrase:porta viático
English translation:pyx
Entered by: Charles Davis

13:39 Jan 23, 2018
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Religion
Spanish term or phrase: porta viatico
My Dominican mother-in-law would like me to bring her a porta viatico. I have asked about this item in a couple of stores, but nobody has given me a definite answer yet regarding its English counterpart.
Darius Saczuk
United States
Local time: 10:13
pyx
Explanation:
"Porta viatico o porta relicario: es una especie de bolsita, de diversos materiales (tela, cuero, piel, plástico), que puede ir adornada con algún símbolo litúrgico. Lleva un cordón lago (para poder colgarse al cuello),y evitar que se caiga. Asi el ministro trasporta el viatico o el relicario.
Viático provisiones para el camino): con este nombre se indica el sacramento de la eucaristía dado a los moribundos, según las palabras del Señor: “Quien come mi carne y bebe mi sangre tiene vida eterna, y yo le resucitaré el último día” (Jn 6,54)."
http://es.catholic.net/op/articulos/58139/cat/912/el-signifi...

"The word pyx (Lat., pyxis, which transliterates the Greek, pyxis, box-wood receptacle, from pyxos, box-tree) was formerly applied in a wide and general sense to all vessels used to contain the Blessed Eucharist. [...] In later times however it has come about that the term pyx is limited in ordinary usage to that smaller vessel of gold, or silver-gilt, in which the Eucharist is commonly carried to the sick. Such vessels are sometimes made flat like a watch, sometimes mounted upon a little stand like a miniature ciborium."
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12588a.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyx

Compare these pages:
https://www.holyart.com/liturgical-accessories/pyxes-and-bur...
https://www.holyart.es/accesorios-para-la-liturgia/relicario...

You might need to specify what sort of pyx your mother-in-law wants, for example a pendant.

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Note added at 37 mins (2018-01-23 14:17:01 GMT)
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If it's the pouch she wants, it's called a burse.

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Note added at 1 hr (2018-01-23 14:39:36 GMT)
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In principle, a "porta viático" is often like a little round metal box, and that's a pyx, but the first definition I quoted in Spanish, as an "especie de bolsita", does correspond to a pyx burse. So as I say, check exactly what it is she wants. It might be something like this:
https://www.amazon.com/Pyx-burse-calfskin-cross-towel/dp/B00...
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Charles Davis
Spain
Local time: 15:13
Grading comment
Kind thanks, Charles.
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2pyx
Charles Davis
Summary of reference entries provided
Borsa Porta Viatico
Tomasso

  

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pyx


Explanation:
"Porta viatico o porta relicario: es una especie de bolsita, de diversos materiales (tela, cuero, piel, plástico), que puede ir adornada con algún símbolo litúrgico. Lleva un cordón lago (para poder colgarse al cuello),y evitar que se caiga. Asi el ministro trasporta el viatico o el relicario.
Viático provisiones para el camino): con este nombre se indica el sacramento de la eucaristía dado a los moribundos, según las palabras del Señor: “Quien come mi carne y bebe mi sangre tiene vida eterna, y yo le resucitaré el último día” (Jn 6,54)."
http://es.catholic.net/op/articulos/58139/cat/912/el-signifi...

"The word pyx (Lat., pyxis, which transliterates the Greek, pyxis, box-wood receptacle, from pyxos, box-tree) was formerly applied in a wide and general sense to all vessels used to contain the Blessed Eucharist. [...] In later times however it has come about that the term pyx is limited in ordinary usage to that smaller vessel of gold, or silver-gilt, in which the Eucharist is commonly carried to the sick. Such vessels are sometimes made flat like a watch, sometimes mounted upon a little stand like a miniature ciborium."
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12588a.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyx

Compare these pages:
https://www.holyart.com/liturgical-accessories/pyxes-and-bur...
https://www.holyart.es/accesorios-para-la-liturgia/relicario...

You might need to specify what sort of pyx your mother-in-law wants, for example a pendant.

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Note added at 37 mins (2018-01-23 14:17:01 GMT)
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If it's the pouch she wants, it's called a burse.

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Note added at 1 hr (2018-01-23 14:39:36 GMT)
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In principle, a "porta viático" is often like a little round metal box, and that's a pyx, but the first definition I quoted in Spanish, as an "especie de bolsita", does correspond to a pyx burse. So as I say, check exactly what it is she wants. It might be something like this:
https://www.amazon.com/Pyx-burse-calfskin-cross-towel/dp/B00...

Charles Davis
Spain
Local time: 15:13
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 92
Grading comment
Kind thanks, Charles.
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thank you, Charles.

Asker: She wants a metal box.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Robert Forstag
1 hr
  -> Thanks, Robert :-)

agree  AllegroTrans
1 day 6 hrs
  -> Thanks, Chris :-)
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Reference comments


36 mins
Reference: Borsa Porta Viatico

Reference information:
Italian for small purse, contains religious items,

viatico vuole dire Traveling expenses


    Reference: http://www.propostereligiose.it/en/giubileum/3967-borsa-port...
    Reference: http://www.holyart.es/accesorios-liturgia/relicarios-eucaris...
Tomasso
United States
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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