[Bell Historians] Consecration or blessing?

[La Greenall laalaagrr@googlemail.com [bellhistorians]]

On 21/04/2016 17:36, John Camp camp at bellringers.org [bellhistorians] wrote:
>
> Now there's another word: "dedication". How does that relate to
> consecration and blessing?

This reminds me of church buildings themselves. They can be consecrated, 
dedicated and blessed, though possibly sometimes as a structure and at 
other times as an entity, a body. Perhaps this is the religious parallel 
to beacon fires, telegraphs and likes?

Lawrence Greenall



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