In 609, Pope Boniface IV consecrated it as a church and celebrated a feast of All Martyrs on the same day as the old pagan feast of Lemuralia, when the ancient Romans used to offer sacrifices to ...

Lemuralia This festival finds its roots in the story of Remus and Romulus, twin brothers and wolf boys. The ancient Romans believed that observing this festival would cast the malevolent spirits of ...

Top 10 facts about ghosts In Ancient Rome, May 13 was the last of three days on which the feast of Lemuralia was celebrated, when malevolent ghosts were exorcised from homes.