rogations

Within the prisoner population were individuals who were suffering severe shock from their inter- rogations.

In the morning prayers led by her she included Adolf Hitler in her rogations, while the two pastors on their turn never did so.

A description of the institution and character of the Ascensiontide rogations is given by Sidonius Apollinaris.

If Easter falls on April 24 or on this day (the latest possible date for Easter), the Rogations are transferred to the following Tuesday.

Other canons required that the litanies and rogations were to be observed by the clergy and people with great reverence "according to the rite of the Roman Church".

On Sunday Judica (7 April 1935) Confessing pastors held rogations for the imprisoned Confessing Christians.

After the toughening of financial control the synodals decided to keep up collections, but more in hiding, and restarted regular rogations for the imprisoned, reading their names from the pulpit.

On August 20th 1543, Henry had ordered "general rogations and processions to be made" on account of the multiple troubles England was experiencing, but public response was slack.

In the Ambrosian rite the rogations take place after Ascension, and in the Spanish on the Thursday to Saturday after Whitsuntide, and in November (Synod of Girona, 517).

Rogation days are, in the calendar of the Western Church, observed on 25 April (the Major Rogation) and the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday immediately preceding Ascension Thursday (the Minor Rogations).

Fathers Juan de Santa Ana and Andres de haro, vicars of Piat and Tuao respectively, were thinking of organizing some processions and rogations to implore from heaven the much wanted rain.

Lévy-Bruhl links rain-making with Christian practice; writing of the aboriginal intichiuma ceremonies he points out that 'Nothing is more widespread than practices having as their object the cessation of drought, and the assurance of rain:(we see this even yet in our own Rogations).

The "Litania Minor", also called Minor Rogations or "Gallicana", the Rogation Days before Ascension, was introduced (477) by St. Mamertus, Bishop of Vienne, on account of the earthquakes and other calamities then prevalent.

The instigation of rogations by Bishop Gall, and the elevation of his nephew, Gregory to the Bishopric of Tours evidently influenced the attempt to take what was essentially a regional cult to which the Bishops felt indebted, and to increase its influence.

"Sexual Rogations and Mystical Abrogations: Some Données of Buddhist Tantra and the Catholic Renaissance," in C. Koelb and S. Noakes, The Comparative Perspective on Literature (Cornell University Press, 1988), pp.

The litaniae minores or rogations, held on the three days preceding Ascension Day, were first introduced into Gaul by Bishop Mamertus of Vienne (c. 470), and made binding for all Gaul by the First Council of Orleans (511).