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...

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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...

undifferentiated collective of divine dead. The Manes were honored during the Parentalia and Feralia in February. The theologian St. Augustine, writing about the...

partly described by their relative, Alfonso Reyes Ochoa, in his book Parentalia. Through her paternal family, Gloria was a relative of the celebrated...

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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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...