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Invoked against stomach pains, especially in children - Rasso; Invoked against storms, hail storms, lightning - Eurosia [26] Stress relief and New year blues - Saint Pio of Pietrelcina; Invoked against stress - Walter of Pontoise [27] Students, youth - John Berchmans; Sudden death - Andrew Avellino; Syphilis, eye troubles - Symphorian [28]
Perhaps the best known work on tempestarii was an 815 AD piece called "On Hail and Thunder" by a bishop, Agobard of Lyon. Some describe it as a complaint of the irreligious beliefs of his flock, as villagers resented paying tithes to the church, but freely paid a form of insurance against storms to village tempestarii; but, it was also noted, whenever a supposed weathermaker failed to prevent ...
The signs prayer (Arabic: صلاة الآيات, romanized: Ṣalāt al-ʾĀyāt) is one of the Muslim prayers that is optional for Sunni Muslims, but mandatory for Shīʿa Muslims. When solar or lunar eclipses, earthquakes, thunder, or other natural phenomena (or signs , hence the name signs prayer ) occur, Muslims may have to pray Ṣalāt al ...
lightning; fire; storms; bakers; Budapest; Donatus of Muenstereifel is a catacomb saint whose relics are found in the Jesuit church in Bad Muenstereifel . He is widely venerated in the Rhine valley region of Germany and the Low Countries , and he is a patron saint of Buda and of protection against lightning .
Treatment of a seizure patient with a knife and prayer by a witch doctor, Ryazan Governorate, 1914. Apocryphal prayer (in the Index of Repudiated Books, false prayer) is a prayer modeled on the church prayer, but containing a large number of insertions from folk beliefs, incantations, in some cases rearrangements or excerpts from apocrypha.
About 25 million times a year, lightning strikes the United States, according to the National Weather Service. Approximately 300 people per year are hit, and of those about 30 will die — many ...
This prompted sailors, who were in danger from sudden storms and lightning, to claim his prayers. The electrical discharges at the mastheads of ships were read as a sign of his protection and came to be called " Saint Elmo's Fire ".
Invocative prayers said by a Catholic bishop. Fresco by Italian Artist Lorenzo Lotto, Suardi, Italy, c. 1524.. Oratio Imperata (Latin, "Obligatory Prayer") is a set of Roman Catholic invocative prayers consisting of the liturgical action and a short, general prayer in which the local ordinary or prelate of the church may publicly pray when a grave need or calamity occurs.