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15:29 Feb 24, 2011
Czech to English translations [PRO] Religion / actually hard to categorize
Czech term or phrase:exerciční dům
regards Stojanov (Velehrad), sentence:
Byl zde postaven poutní a exerciční dům, první v České republice.
I notice there are a few around the republic, what are they, are we zapping demons, running in place, what?
thanks!
Thanks for all your help and a really healthy debate.., This one to me "feels" the best in English, i.e. closest contemporary equivalent, where readers will most likely know what's going on ...here's one example from my home state (http://www.findthedivine.com/states/states_pa.html) I just want the readers to quickly understand, this is a brochure of sacral structures around the Zlin Region, and while spiritual "exercises" might be technically more correct at least from an historical linguistic perspective, for the average reader this might indeed be confusing. Cheers Lenka.
I've made myself misunderstood, I was joking in the original statement, they're not LINGUISTICALLY related, obviously...my second statement was that just maybe, technically, they may have dabbled in exorcism if needed, if little Vaclav was behaving uncontrollably...obviously this is not a house of exorcism :) please y'all...
Fully agree with Tomas - this one has directly nothing to do with exorcism.
On the other hand, "retreat" (rekolekce) is quite close to "exercises" (exercicie) with a very slight difference: exercises usually stick more or less to Ignatius´s outline, while retreat is a bit more general term...
Scott - Well whatever Ignatius came up with, it was certainly not related to exorcism. I fail to see how, just because both exercises and exorcism is "official" for Catholicism, it should mean it is closely related? :)
It is a house, usually near-by a church or a cloister, where the pilgrims are accommodated and take a few days / a week off and contemplate / concentrate on their spiritual life (guided by a priest).
It is a normal Catholic custom, nothing daemonic.
The translation workplace 
peer agreement (net): +1
