THE GREAT ROGATION
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Asiago, 5 o’clock in the morning. The bells of the cathedral start ringing and the city wakes up.
At 6:00 an immense procession starts its way from the centre, walks along all the borders of the county, through woods and meadows, and returns back to the church twelve hours later.
The Great Rogation, or the “Tour Around the World” as the local people call it, is a tradition that takes place every year on the Saturday before the Ascension.
This tradition is presumably a mixture of different rituals from ancient times, celebrations of spring and fertility, linking the ancestral tradition of praising the nature and the Christian rogation service on Thanksgiving for the recovery from plague.
During the day you can hear singing of ancient litanies, and women give to men coloured eggs with herbs and flowers, prepared the day before.
This is a tradition that is strongly felt by the asiaghesi (the people from Asiago) as witnessed by the thousands of participants taking part that every year in the Great Rogation.
At 6:00 an immense procession starts its way from the centre, walks along all the borders of the county, through woods and meadows, and returns back to the church twelve hours later.
The Great Rogation, or the “Tour Around the World” as the local people call it, is a tradition that takes place every year on the Saturday before the Ascension.
This tradition is presumably a mixture of different rituals from ancient times, celebrations of spring and fertility, linking the ancestral tradition of praising the nature and the Christian rogation service on Thanksgiving for the recovery from plague.
During the day you can hear singing of ancient litanies, and women give to men coloured eggs with herbs and flowers, prepared the day before.
This is a tradition that is strongly felt by the asiaghesi (the people from Asiago) as witnessed by the thousands of participants taking part that every year in the Great Rogation.
