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Rogation Days
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Rogation Days
pl n
(Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) April 25 (the Major Rogation) and the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday before Ascension Day, observed by Christians as days of solemn supplication for the harvest and marked by processions, special prayers, and blessing of the crops
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Rogation Days
pl (Eccl) → Bitttage pl, → Rogationstage pl
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To read of children eagerly scrambling for nuts and oranges at Rogationtide a century ago, and to think of the disdain with which they would regard such a custom now, is to encourage some very melancholy speculation about the decline of society.
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During Rogationtide - the fifth week after Easter - villagers, with the rector and other local dignitaries, would walk the parish bounds.
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[RN] Though the topic of each homily is different, example (3) comes from the homily about the creation of the world, and example (4) is taken from the homily to be delivered on Tuesday in Rogationtide and is on Lord's prayer, (3) the quoted passages refer to the same events, i.
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