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Birthday of Rome. On this day, an annual festival called the Palilia (Feast of Pales) was celebrated in ancient Rome to honor the pastoral goddess Pales. In the country, special purification rites were performed to keep the sheep disease-free. Shepherds, followed by their flock, would traditionally leap through bonfires. In the city of Rome, the festival was celebrated with wine and merriment.
Baha’i: The first day of the Festival of Ridvan. A 12-day festival celebrating the revelation of the Baha’i faith by the Bahá’u’lláh to his companions in the garden of Ridvan in 1863. It is the most holy of all Baha’i celebrations.
Rome: Palilia – sacred to the God Pales, after whom the Palatine hill is named. On this festival day, feasts were held, and fires were made from olive wood, pine, savine, laurel and sulphur. Cattle were made to walk through the smoke as a means of purifying them. This is also the traditional day on which Rome was founded by Romulus. A festival celebrated by the Romans, in honour of the Goddess Pales, who watched over the cattle. Celebrations of Pales predate the adoption of Greek Gods into the Roman pantheon.
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