10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MAJOR ROGATION»
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1
On the Political Economy of Plant Disease Epidemics: Capita ...
On April 25th, the Major Rogation Day, the Litaniae Majores (major litanies) were
sung. They contained vocations to Saints, prayers and supplications (rogationes).
A major rogation is: Utfructus terrae dare et conservare digneris. (That You ...
2
Religious Celebrations: An Encyclopedia of Holidays, ...
Several weeks after the Major Rogation Day, a send set of three days are
observed as the Minor or Lesser Rogation Days. Mamertus (d. c. 475). The
archbishop of Vienne (Gaul), later canonized for his saintliness, introduced a set
of litanies to ...
3
The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship ...
The most notable feature was a procession through the fields while reciting the
litany of the saints. The major Rogation Day was 25 April, which would be about
two or three weeks after Easter. Then on the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday
of ...
Hughes Oliphant Old, 1999
4
The Archdeacon and Ecclesiastical Discipline in Yorkshire, ...
In the Middle Ages, the Major Rogation took place on St. Mark's Day (April 25 th)
when the parishioners perambulated the fields of the parish, making various
stations on the way at which gospels were read, and prayers recited for a
blessing ...
5
A Basic Church Dictionary
The 'Major Rogation' was kept in former times on 25 April when the faithful
processed through the cornfields to pray for the preservation of the crops from
mildew. The 'Minor Rogations' - the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday before ...
6
Traditional Festivals, Vol. 2 [M - Z]
Though the name of the god Mars already finds an echo in the name of Saint
Mark who has his feast day on April 25, the main reason for having a Major
Rogation procession on this date, in view of obtaining God's blessing on the
crops just ...
7
Music-cultures in Contact: Convergences and Collisions
They served as viewing stands for guild members at Corpus Christi processions,
and at ecclesiastical processions on Rogation Monday, which is the first of the
three minor Rogation days (the Major Rogation Day is April 25) prior to
Ascension ...
Margaret J. Kartomi, Stephen Blum, 1994
8
The Liturgical Year: Its History and Its Meaning After the ...
Pope Gregory I devoted special care to the celebration of this major rogation day.
84 The lesser litanies (= more recently established intercessory processions) or
rogation days originated in Gaul. There, in 469 Bishop Mamertus of Vienne ...
9
Introduction to Christian Liturgy
... fields were springing to life.The custom may have arisen in Gaul during the fifth
century after a time of pestilence and famine, but it was not introduced in Rome
until the ninth century.1 The Major Rogation Day is April 25, which coincides with
...
432 25th April, the Major Rogation Day; see entries on the Rogation Days in the
Catholic Encyclopedia and Cross, Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church.
Expert correspondents assure me that Blake was wrong to date Rogation Day,
1150, ...
