Hieromartyr Phocas was born in the city of Sinope in northern Anatolia. His life and legend may have been a fusion of three men with the same name: a Phocas of Antioch, Phocas, Bishop of Sinope, and P
Saint Phocas of Sinope, traditionally shown with a book and a paddle.
In Christianity, the translation of relics is the ceremonial removal of holy objects from one place to another. Usually only the movement of the remains of a saint's body would be treated so formally,
Depiction of St. Corbinian's relics being translated to Freising from Merano, from a panel in the crypt of Freising Cathedral
Translation of the relics of St. Gregory to Petershausen Abbey, Germany
The Honorable Head of Venerable Macarius (in the golden reliquary held by Archbishop Georgy of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas) visits the city of Kstovo during its translation from Nizhny Novgorod's Pechersky Ascension Monastery to Makaryev Monastery.
17th-century icon of the Translation of the Relics of Saint Nicholas of Myra, from Myra in Asia Minor to Bari, Italy, in 1087 (Historic Museum in Sanok, Poland)