- In
ancient Rome, the
Parentalia (Latin pronunciation: [parɛnˈtaːlɪ.a]) or dies
parentales ([ˈdɪ.eːs parɛnˈtaːleːs], "ancestral days") was a nine-day festival...
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reflecting the month's
original position at the end of the year. The
Parentalia was a nine-day
festival honoring the
ancestors and
propitiating the dead...
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recorded by Ovid in Book II of his Fasti. This day
marked the end of
Parentalia, a nine-day
festival (13–21 February)
honoring the dead ancestors. Roman...
- at
Westminster School between 1641 and 1646 is
substantiated only by
Parentalia, the
biography compiled by his son, a
fourth Christopher,
which places...
- All Saints' Day. All Saints' Day
Anthesteria Dziady Feralia Halloween Parentalia Radonitsa Setsubun, a
similar ****anese
custom "they do not
occur in epitaphs...
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several days in
February that
honored family or ancestors. It
followed the
Parentalia, nine days of
remembrance which began on
February 13 and
concluded with...
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Slavs Traditional Chinese holidays Filial piety in
Chinese culture The
Parentalia in
Roman culture "Meet the
Chetti Melaka, or
Peranakan Indians, striving...
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practices of
Parentalia but
commended funeral feasts as a
Christian opportunity to give alms of food to the poor.
Christians attended Parentalia and its accompanying...
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undifferentiated collective of
divine dead. The
Manes were
honored during the
Parentalia and
Feralia in February. The
theologian St. Augustine,
writing about the...
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celebrated their ancestor cult
during Larentalia rather than the
usual Parentalia even in the 1st century BC; see
Taylor 1925, pp. 302ff.
Established in...
