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The sacred fire of Vesta was a sacred eternal flame in ancient Rome.The Vestal Virgins, originally numbering two, later four, and eventually six, were selected by lot and served for thirty years, tending the holy fire and performing other rituals connected to domestic life—among them were the ritual sweeping of the temple on June 15 and the preparation of food for certain festivals.
[27] Ovid agreed, saying: "Vesta is the same as the earth; both have the perennial fire: the Earth and the sacred Fire are both symbolic of home." [28] The sacred flames of the hearth were believed to be indispensable for the preservation and continuity of the Roman State: Cicero states it explicitly. The purity of the flames symbolised the ...
The Sacred Flame (1928) is William Somerset Maugham's 21st play, written at the age of 54. Maugham dedicated the publication to his friend Messmore Kendall . The play, written as three acts, is unique within the total of Maugham's list of 24 plays, in that he changed from his previous methodology of using the naturalistic speech pattern he had ...
2nd-century AD Roman statue of a Virgo Vestalis Maxima (National Roman Museum) 1st-century BC (43–39 BC) aureus depicting a seated Vestal Virgin marked vestalis. In ancient Rome, the Vestal Virgins or Vestals (Latin: Vestālēs, singular Vestālis [wɛsˈtaːlɪs]) were priestesses of Vesta, virgin goddess of Rome's sacred hearth and its flame.
The sacred flame was finally extinguished in 394 AD by Theodosius I, during the persecution of pagans in the late Roman Empire on account of the rise of Christianity in the empire. [ 12 ] Modern-day Temple of Vesta
The Sacred Flame may refer to: The Sacred Flame, 1928 play; The Sacred Flame, an American film; The Sacred Flame, a German-language version; The Olympic flame ...
The Sacred fire of Vesta in ancient Roman religion; Holy Fire, a concept in Orthodox Christianity; The sacred fire in Solomon's Temple; The sacramental Easter Fire; Fire personified as a deity in Indo-European religion: Atar in Zoroastrianism; Agni in Hinduism; Eternal flame modern flames kept permanently alight, on memorials etc.
The Sacred Flame is a 1929 film directed by Archie Mayo, starring Pauline Frederick and Conrad Nagel, and based on a 1928 Broadway play of the same title by Somerset Maugham. [1] It is now considered a lost film. [2] Two years later Warner Brothers remade the film in German The Sacred Flame.