ROGATION • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Rogation

... Rogation days and Ember days, crosses were carried through the fields and the priest went to l'Arbre-des-Fees and chanted the Gospel of St. John. He chanted it also at the Gooseberry Spring and at the other springs in the parish.[200] For the exorcising of evil spirits there was nothing like the ...

— The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 (of 2) • Anatole France

... pretext of her own carelessness or the scarcity in the market. She would often exculpate herself at the expense of the cook, and even go so far as to scold him. 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 • Honore de Balzac