!!!Bitttage

Prayer Days, days on which processions are held to pray for a good 
harvest and to ward off thunderstorms; mainly on the 3 days before the 
Ascension of Christ (going back to the synod of Orleans of 511) and 
the name day of St. Mark (April 25). Even in pre-Christian times 
pictures of gods were carried through the fields, also to inspect the 
estate borders.

!Literature
R. Fochler, Von Neujahr bis Silvester, 1971; H. Koren, 
Volksbrauch im Kirchenjahr, 1934.


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