Label | Latin keywords | Short description |
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bath | lavacrum, balnei, saponis, sabonis | The blessing of a bath or its place, peculiar to Poland. |
bloodletting | minutio* sanguinis | Prayer before bloodletting (a traditional medical practice to which spiritual benefits were also attributed). |
epidemic | contra pestem, tempore (mortalitatis et) pestis, tempore pestilentiae, pro peste pellenda, benedictio sagittarum | Orations given against or in the case of an epidemic (pestilence, plagues). |
famine | tempore famis | Orations, preces, processions for use in case of famine, often as a part of votive supplications for various intentions. |
health of animals | in peste animalium, pecoribus, animalium, pro animalibus infirmantibus, pecora, ovium, pestem animalium, pro avibus | Prayer for the healing of sick animals, blessing of salt to be given to sick animals, often connected to the major blessing of water (cf. major blessing of water). |
leper | leprosos, leprosum, leprosorum, eiiciendi, separandi, separandum | Separation and ejection of lepers, typical in French Uses. |
rods | benedictio virgarum | Blessing of rods on the feast of Holy Innocents Day (28 December). |