Employ your magic, white or black, appeal to your witches' sabbath or the novenas of the Church; what care I how 'tis done, provided my line male continues?
"The Hated Son"
Honore de Balzac
People keep their season there, make their novenas, and obtain their cure.
"En Route"
J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
The people who still believe know nothing of the liturgy; they do not prize it and have forgotten all about it; they are only attracted by the novenas, the triduos and retreats, all that is termed tolerated and extra-liturgic worship.
"The Shadow of the Cathedral"
Vicente Blasco Ibañez