Agonalia

From rogueclassicism this day in history

ante diem iii idus decembres

Agonalia — the fourth and final occurrence of this festival in the Roman calendar; like all instances, the Rex Sacrorum would sacrifice a ram in the Regia, but on this occasion, the sacrifice was apparently in honour of Sol Indiges.

Septimontium — a somewhat obscure festival apparently originally only celebrated by the ‘montani’ (i.e. the ‘hill-dwellers’) which involved sacrifices on each of Rome’s seven hills.

287 — martyrdom of Fuscian (and others)

302 — martyrdom of Pontian

 

Sol Indiges was the forerunner of Sol Invictus.

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