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The place English has in the secular world is, and is rightly, occupied by partly Latin, partly Italian, in the ecclesial world.
That said, though dictionaries do seem to know a “visere, viso, visi, visum”, it’s hardly a usual Latin word (which would be “videre, video, vidi, visum” and its iterative deduction “visitare, o, avi, atum” from whence English “to visit”).
Goodness, haven’t many of us already traveled to Armemia?
But if it referred to a visit the verb would probably be from visito, indicating a visit, and not from viso, beholding or seeing
Why on Earth would an Italian/Spanish speaking Pope who goes to Armenia bring a gift with an inscription in English?? Of course it’s Latin.
And instant collectors item!!
Like miss-printed banknotes.
Accusative of end of motion without ‘ad’ when destination is a country? Not classical, though Tacitus uses it. In fact, ‘in Armeniam’ would be better, showing that the HF went into the heart of the country and not just to the border. [I don’t think anyone is suggesting that the Latin is in good classical style.] In any case, both ‘Armenia visit’ and ‘Armenian visit’ are pretty sketchy English, though the form is now widely used.
In 2008, Pope Benedict XVI gave something similar to the U.S. bishops when he visited. My bishop generously gave me one of the 5 he received. On it, it says ‘invisit” instead of just ‘visit.”
What medallion punctuation or abbreviation conventions are there, if any generally accepted ones, I wonder? E.g., if “VISIT” is short for ‘ Visitatio’, would not one expect the genitive (‘Armeniae’), or an ‘ad’ before this accusative (assuming it is one)? And what form(s) of ‘vicesimus quartus’ (or ‘quattuor et vicesimus’) and ‘v. sextus’ or ‘ sex et v.’ might be intended by the numerals ?
In any case, a nice depiction of St. Gregory the Illuminator (quite like the one in the mosaic in one of the lesser domes of the Church of Theotokos Pammakaristos in Constantinople – currently a museum).
Father Z, did you ever have a chance to comment on the Holy Father naming St. Gregory of Narek a doctor of the Church?
Sandro Magister had an article the other day saying that the HF was no longer using the word ‘genocide’ in relation to the Armenians. But now today, Magister notes that during the visit to the presidential palace, Francis used the word, ad libbing from his prepared comments.
http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1351327?eng=y
It’s certainly not uncommon for Latin inscriptions on coins to be abbreviated. British and Canadian coins provide ready contemporary examples. If one looks at classical coinage it’s also common for the abbreviations to lack punctuation.