In ancient Rome, the Parentalia (Latin pronunciation:[parɛnˈtaːlɪ.a]) or dies parentales ([ˈdɪ.eːsparɛnˈtaːleːs], "ancestral days") was a nine-day festival held in honour of family ancestors, beginning on 13 February.[1]
Although the Parentalia was a holiday on the Roman religious calendar, its observances were mainly domestic and familial.[2] The importance of the family to the Roman state, however, was expressed by public ceremonies on the opening day, the Ides of February, when a Vestal conducted a rite for the collective di parentes of Rome at the tomb of Tarpeia.[3]
^Mary Beard, J.A. North, and S.R.F. Price, Religions of Rome: A History (Cambridge University Press, 1998), p. 50; Stefan Weinstock, Divus Julius (Oxford, 1971), pp. 291-6.
^Beard et al., Religions of Rome, p. 50.
^William Warde Fowler, The Roman Festivals of the Period of the Republic (London, 1908), p. 306 (1899 Internet Archive edition available.
In ancient Rome, the Parentalia (Latin pronunciation: [parɛnˈtaːlɪ.a]) or dies parentales ([ˈdɪ.eːs parɛnˈtaːleːs], "ancestral days") was a nine-day festival...
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...
at Westminster School between 1641 and 1646 is substantiated only by Parentalia, the biography compiled by his son, a fourth Christopher, which places...
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...
meters, composed before 367. Only the beginning and the end are preserved. Parentalia. 30 poems of various lengths, mostly in elegiac meter, on deceased relations...
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...
undifferentiated collective of divine dead. The Manes were honored during the Parentalia and Feralia in February. The theologian St. Augustine, writing about the...
Ochoa-Garibay), partly described by their relative Alfonso Reyes Ochoa in his book Parentalia. Through her paternal family, Gloria was a relative of the celebrated...
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Capitoline Hill 13 (Ides): minor festival of Faunus on the Tiber Island 13–22: Parentalia, a commemoration of ancestors and the dead among families 13: Parentatio...
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...
spread. Pinnacles are no Use, and as little Ornament. — Christopher Wren, Parentalia The chaos of the Gothic left much to be desired in Wren's eyes. His aversion...
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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...
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and veneration of the dead, especially at the nine-day festival of the Parentalia during which a family honored its ancestors. The family visited the cemetery...
Roman holidays commemorated a family's dead ancestors, including the Parentalia, held February 13 through 21, to honor the family's ancestors; and the...
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deeper evocation of the presence of the dead. Roman festivals such as the Parentalia as well as everyday domestic rituals cultivated ancestral spirits (see...
(Toulouse) in Gaul. He was the maternal uncle of the poet Ausonius, who in his Parentalia praises him and mentions that he enjoyed the friendship of the brothers...
of Conquistador Diego de Ochoa-Garibay, as documented by Reyes in his Parentalia. Reyes was educated at various colleges in Monterrey, El Liceo Francés...
ancient Rome were observed by families several days during the year (see Parentalia). Infants less than one year of age received no formal rites. The lack...
equivalent to the dii patrii (deified ancestors) who received cult at Parentalia. Lares Permarini: These Lares protected seafarers; also a temple was dedicated...
Festival Ghost Festival, the Chinese counterpart of the Obon Festival. Parentalia, a festival in ancient Rome to honor ancestors, including bringing offerings...
celebrated their mortuary cult at the end of every year. This feast was called Parentalia (derived from lat. parens and meaning "concerning the parents"). To celebrate...
funerals. Libations were poured in rituals of caring for the dead (see Parentalia and Caristia), and some tombs were equipped with tubes through which the...
received ancestral rites as manes (gods of the underworld) during the Parentalia and other important domestic festivals. Their powers were limited; deceased...
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