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- Rosalia_(festival) abstract "In the Roman Empire, Rosalia or Rosaria was a festival of roses celebrated on various dates, primarily in May, but scattered through mid-July. The observance is sometimes called a rosatio (\"rose-adornment\") or the dies rosationis, \"day of rose-adornment,\" and could be celebrated also with violets (violatio, an adorning with violets, also dies violae or dies violationis, \"day of the violet[-adornment]\"). As a commemoration of the dead, the rosatio developed from the custom of placing flowers at burial sites. It was among the extensive private religious practices by means of which the Romans cared for their dead, reflecting the value placed on tradition (mos maiorum, \"the way of the ancestors\"), family lineage, and memorials ranging from simple inscriptions to grand public works. Several dates on the Roman calendar were set aside as public holidays or memorial days devoted to the dead.As a religious expression, a rosatio might also be offered to the cult statue of a deity or to other revered objects. In May, the Roman army celebrated the Rosaliae signorum, rose festivals at which they adorned the military standards with garlands. The rose festivals of private associations and clubs are documented by at least forty-one inscriptions in Latin and sixteen in Greek, where the observance is often called a rhodismos.Flowers were traditional symbols of rejuvenation, rebirth, and memory, with the red and purple of roses and violets felt to evoke the color of blood as a form of propitiation. Their blooming period framed the season of spring, with roses the last of the flowers to bloom and violets the earliest. As part of both festive and funerary banquets, roses adorned \"a strange repast ... of life and death together, considered as two aspects of the same endless, unknown process.\" In some areas of the Empire, the Rosalia was assimilated to floral elements of spring festivals for Dionysus, Adonis and others, but rose-adornment as a practice was not strictly tied to the cultivation of particular deities, and thus lent itself to Jewish and Christian commemoration. Early Christian writers transferred the imagery of garlands and crowns of roses and violets to the cult of the saints.".
- Rosalia_(festival) country Roman_Empire.
- Rosalia_(festival) similar Adonia.
- Rosalia_(festival) similar Dionysia.
- Rosalia_(festival) similar Religion_in_ancient_Rome.
- Rosalia_(festival) similar Roman_funerary_practices.
- Rosalia_(festival) similar Saint.
- Rosalia_(festival) thumbnail Morgantina39.jpg?width=300.
- Rosalia_(festival) type Roman_festivals.
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- Rosalia_(festival) wikiPageWikiLink Category:Ancient_Roman_festivals.
- Rosalia_(festival) wikiPageWikiLink Category:Flower_festivals.
- Rosalia_(festival) wikiPageWikiLink Category:Flower_festivals_in_Europe.
- Rosalia_(festival) wikiPageWikiLink Category:Flower_festivals_in_Italy.
- Rosalia_(festival) wikiPageWikiLink Category:July_observances.
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