[SuziQ]

Could La Salette be translated as "She Who Weeps"? I was trying to find out a Latin translation of that phrase today, when it was mentioned on one of the threads about That One being invited by Notre Dame to be the 2009 Commencement Speaker . (gag!)

[Salvation]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2213224/posts?page=7#7

Can you help Suzi out here?

[BlackVeil]

It is not translated as such - La Salette is a French place name. But the Virgin of La Salette was known as “She who weeps”, as when the apparition she was crying.

[AnAmericanMother]

The Latin verb is lacrimare (present infinitive).

The first person active present is lacrimo, I weep.

The third person (first conjugation) is lacrimat (he/she/it weeps).

So it seems to me that Qui lacrimat would be "(she) who weeps."

But I am an indifferent Latinist and will yield to anybody who can actually read Virgil without a crib!