Fordicidia
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In ancient Roman religion, the Fordicidia was a festival of fertility, held on the Ides of April, that pertained to farming and animal husbandry. It involved the sacrifice of a pregnant cow to Tellus,
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Virgo Vestalis Maxima, the high priestess of Vesta
Aprilis
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Aprilis or mensis Aprilis was the second month of the classical Roman calendar, following Martius and preceding Maius. In the oldest known Roman calendar, Aprilis had come second in a ten-month year t
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…ancient Roman goddess of the Earth, in proximity to the festival of Ceres (Cerealia) on April 19. On the Roman religious calendar, the month of April (Aprilis) was in general preoccupied with deities who were female or ambiguous in gender, opening with the Feast of Venus on the Kalends. Several other festivals…
April panel from a Roman mosaic of the months (from El Djem, Tunisia, first half of 3rd century AD)
A fragment of the Fasti Praenestini for April showing the abbreviations for the Vinalia and Robigalia (VIN and ROB), and the nundinal letters on the left edge