April 11, 2020

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   Cerealia

   
   

   11 April 2010 06:00 PM

   This event began 04/11/2010 and repeats every year until 04/11/2020

   
   

   Cerealia was a 7-day festival celebrated in ancient Rome in honor of the goddess Ceres. The exact dates of the April festival are uncertain: it may have started on April 11 and ended on April 19 (Or it may have started on the Ides of April, i.e. April 13, or even on April 7.)
    
   In Rome, this was the primary festival of Ceres and was accompanied by the Ludi Ceriales or "Games of Ceres" in the Circus Maximus. Ovid's description (Fasti iv.494) mentions that Ceres/Demeter's search for her lost daughter Proserpina was represented by women clothed in white, running about with lighted torches.
    
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