The Lutheran Church today still observes them. Today these three days are called the Rogation Days. They would pray that God would relieve their suffering and bless the crops during the coming year. And he instituted a period of prayer, fasting, litanies, and processions on the three days before Ascension. The Bishop of the area that was affected by all this was named Mamertus. And more than that, they realized that they did not have the power to overcome even what the earth could do to them, let alone the devil. The people recognized this as evidence of demonic activity, as the result that the devil still had power in the world. Whole forests were consumed, which forced many animals including wolves and bears to enter into the town and eat many of the children. And then on Easter day, the history books record that fire from heaven engulfed the king’s palace in flames. And on top of it all, there was an earthquake causing many houses and even churches to collapse. They were experiencing pestilence or plague, a pandemic. Foreigners, barbarian tribes were raiding their village. The Roman Empire was in a state of utter collapse. To the people of that village, it seemed like the world was falling apart, or even that it was the end of the world. It was the year 474 A.D in Vienne in modern day France.
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