The Lesser Rogations which we keep on the three days before the Ascension are actually older than the Greater Rogations kept on April 25th. They are called “lesser” because they were instituted in Gaul ca. 470 AD, by St Mamertus, the bishop of Vienne, and only adopted into the Roman Rite about 300 years later.Two leaves of the Farnese Hours, showing a penitential procession and part of the Litany
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