Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. VII, 1951 Non-Christian religions Particular topics

Lucina

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Also known as: Juno Lucina; Latin: Iuno Lucina

LUCINA. - An epithet of Juno, who under this name had a sanctuary on the Esquiline. This sanctuary, whose feast day was March 1st, occupied the site of an older lucus (sacred grove). The ancients explained the appellation L. by referring it either to birth (the goddess gives lucem nascentibus) or to the light of the moon: in any case the goddess was always regarded as a goddess of births. At every birth an obol was paid into the treasury of her temple (as at every death into that of Libitina, at every coming of age into that of Iuventas).

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BIBL.: G. Wissowa, Religion und Kultur der Römer, 2nd ed., Munich 1912, p. 183 ff.; E. L. Shield, Juno, Northampton, Mass., 1926, p. 157 ff.; C. Koch, Der römische Iuppiter, Frankfurt am Main 1937, pp. 57 ff., 108 ff.

Angelo Brelich

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII (1951), col. 1631.

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Brelich, Angelo. “Lucina.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, col. 1631. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/lucina.

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Brelich, Angelo. “Lucina.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, col. 1631. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/lucina.

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@incollection{ec7_lucina,
  author    = {Brelich, Angelo},
  title     = {Lucina},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {VII},
  pages     = {1631},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1951},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/lucina}
}

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