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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at Westminster School between 1641 and 1646 is substantiated only by Parentalia, the biography compiled by his son, a fourth Christopher, which places...
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All Saints' Day. All Saints' Day Anthesteria Dziady Feralia Halloween Parentalia Radonitsa Setsubun, a similar Japanese custom "they do not occur in epitaphs...
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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...
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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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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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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...
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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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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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