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ROGATION DAYS (Lat. rogatio, from rogare, to beseech; the equivalent of Gr. )

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 453 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RHY-RON
ROGATION DAYS (Lat. rogatio, from rogare, to beseech; the equivalent of Gr. ) .araveta, litany), in the Calendar of the Christian
Church
 , the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday before Ascension Day, so called because
long
  associated with the chanting of litanies in procession (rogationes). The
week
  in which they occur is sometimes called Rogation
Week
 . In 511
the first Council of Orleans ordered that the three days pre-ceding Ascension Day should be celebrated as rogation days with fasting and rogationes. All
work
  was to be suspended that all might join in the processions. Leo III. (
pope
  795816) introduced rogation days, but without the fasting, at Rome. St
Augustine
  had earlier introduced the custom into the
English
 
Church
 , learning i t on his way through Gaul. The Council of Clovesho in 747 confirmed
Augustine
 's
injunction
 , and ordered that the rogation days be kept up " according to the way of our fathers." The place-name " Gospel Oak," which occurs in London and elsewhere, is a relic of these rogation processions, the gospel of the day being read at the foot of the finest oak the parish boasted. After the Reformation the processions gradually ceased to be ecclesiastical in England, and are now practically secularized into the perambulation of the parish boundaries on or about Ascension Day.
See also PROCESSION and LITANY.


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