A
national Roman holiday. An agricultural festival celebrated with prayers and
sacrifices to head off wheat rust disease and ask for protection of corn crop
but
also a
day for celebrating male sex workers.
So
that's what I was doing many many years ago when I took part in a procession
with banners and crosses around our small town and out into the surrounding
field - I was celebrating what was then called Rogation Day
but
male
sex workers were never mentioned.