Rogation Days
Britishplural noun
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Three days in the year, the Rogation Days, when the ground half opens to receive the fruitful rain sent by the Lord, Marienka returns to the earth.
From Laboulaye's Fairy Book by Booth, Mary L. (Mary Louise)
Two special prayers for this purpose, entitled "For Fruitful Seasons,—To be used on Rogation Sunday and the Rogation Days," were introduced into the American Prayer-book at its last revision in 1892.
From The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia by Miller, William James
Violet is the penitential color and is used in Advent, Lent, the Ember and Rogation Days, on the Feasts of the Holy Innocents, etc.
From The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia by Miller, William James
So that the Rogation Days bear the same relation to the plowing and sowing that Thanksgiving Day bears to the harvest.
From The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia by Miller, William James
From this useful and ancient ceremony, Rogation Days were called by the Anglo-Saxons Béddagas=Prayer-days, or Gang-dagas=perambulation-days.
From The Prayer Book Explained by Jackson, Percival
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