rogation

• “Laws, or rather, Rogations, for a law before it was finally passed was known as a rogation, and these were long discussed before they were agreed to.”

  The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic

• “Speaking of the Fraternity, they also have put up some images of their rogation day observances; here is a sample:”

  Children's Feast of St. Jean Baptist de la Salle and Rogation Day Procession

• “Initially, however, the king did not wait for a rogation day to collect the necessary revenues for the young prince's household.”

  From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558

• “At that time young lawyers did not, as they do now, keep the fasts of the Church, the four rogation seasons, and the vigils of festivals; so Granville was not at first aware of the regular recurrence of these Lenten meals, which his wife took care should be made dainty by the addition of teal, moor-hen, and fish-pies, that their amphibious meat or high seasoning might cheat his palate.”

  A Second Home

• “He still insists that metaphysics is, above all else, a form of “questioning and interro - gation,” but by now his own survey forces him to go on to say that “the particular form given to the inter - rogation is, in the last resort, unimportant.””

  METAPHYSICAL IMAGINATION

• “All three, and particu - larly Bruno, extend Ficino's anthropocentrism into cosmic dimensions, as they unfold a universe to be explored and understood through the unfettered inter - rogation of nature rather than by a perusal of tradi - tional authors — an ideal consecrated by Bruno's martyrdom.”

  PLATONISM IN THE RENAISSANCE

• “Gaul about the year 452, S. Mamertus bishop of Vienne appointed solemn litanies to be recited on the three _rogation_ days.”

  The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome

• “Special times are appointed for them: the hours for the various parts of the daily Office, days of rogation or of vigil, seasons of Advent and”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss

• “This general chapter assembled once a year, at Sempringham, on the rogation days, and was attended by the prior, cellarer, and prioress of each house.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI

• “St. Lupicinus, St. Simplicius (about 400), St. Paschasius, St. Nectarius, St. Nicetas (about 449), St. Mamertus (d. 475 or 476), who instituted the rogation days, whose brother Claudianus Mamertus was known as a theologian and poet, and during whose episcopate St. Leonianus held for forty years the post of grand penitentiary at”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability

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