[Tagging] patron saints
Philip Barnes
phil at trigpoint.me.uk
Sun Jan 25 17:22:48 UTC 2015
On Sun, 2015-01-25 at 16:20 +0000, Steve Doerr wrote:
> On 25/01/2015 16:29, Friedrich Volkmann wrote:
>
> > I'd like to suggest a new key for patron saints. Certainly patron_saint=* or
> > just patron=*. There are some occurrences in Taginfo, although most values
> > of patron=* do not look like saints.
> >
> > holy_name=* has also been suggested, but this sounds to me as if the name
> > were holy. It's actually the saint who is holy.
> >
> > patronage=* may be ambiguous.
> >
> > patrociny=* seems to be an extinct word.
> >
> >
>
> In English, we often call this the 'dedication' of the church. This
> can include things like Holy Cross (Sacré Cœur) which are obviously
> not saints.
>
Many are dedicated All Saints, so will saints=all be used there?
Phil (trigpoint)
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