Hail Janus!
Hail Juno!
 Hail Felicitas!
We celebrate the happiness of these peak summer times.
Salve Iane!
Salve Iuno!
Salve Felicitas!

 

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The Capitoline temple to Felicitas was dedicated on this day. The Kalends of July also begin a nine-day tempus nefastum – one that balances the pre-solstitial dies nefasti of June. In all, the month of July in its early parts functions as a kind of reverse ritual palimpsest of June. The Kalends themselves in their standard honouring of the dual Janus and the goddess Juno commemorate in cultic statement the ‘dioscuric triad’ – the divine twins and an associated female figure. In this sense, the Kalends of each month celebrate a seminal deific configuration that lies at the heart of Romano Religio.

On the Capitol, a temple to the goddess Felicitas or to Juno in Felicitas was dedicated on this day.