Veneralia

The Veneralia were in the Roman religion that on April 1, celebrated festival in honor of Venus Verticordia ( " charioteer of the heart ").

The worship of the deity Fortuna Virilis was also part of the festivities.

In Rome, the women washed ritually the jewelry of the statues of the gods and this even with flowers. The women themselves bathed on the day in the public baths of Rome with wreaths of myrtle on your heads. It was a day when the women asked for divine help for their love life.

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