The 165 gods of Catholism-Rome
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GODS/
GODDESSES DESCRIPTION SAINTS
Abeona
A goddess who protects children when they leave the parents’ home for the first time.
Saint Jeanne de Chantal
Abundantia
A goddess of abundance and fortune. Her attribute is a cornucopia ("horn of plenty") with which she distributes grain and money.
Saint Agricola of Avignon
Adeona
A goddess who guides children back home after leaving the parents house for the first time.
Saint Felicity
Aequitas
A god of deals and transactions.
Saint Homobonus
Africus
A god of the Southwest wind.
Saint Agricola of Avignon
Alemonia
A goddess who feeds unborn children.
Saint Joseph
Angerona
A goddess of secrecy and protector of Rome. She was shown with a bandaged mouth and a finger to her lips as if imploring silence. Her festival is celebrated on December 21.
Saint John Nepomucene
Angita
A goddess of healing and witchcraft.
Saint Benedict
Antevorte
A goddess of the future.
Saint Andrew
Aquilo
A god of the North wind.
Saint Maurus
Aradia
A goddess of witches in the Tuscany region of Italy. She is the daughter of Diana and her brother Lucifer came to earth to teach the witches her mother’s magic.
Our Lady of the Snows
Asherah
Ashtaroth
Astarte
Ishtar
Asherah's worship involved sexual excesses intended to stimulate rain and quicken the ability of animals and people to reproduce. She is invoked in childbirth and planting time. Her figures were made of wood and she is associated with sacred trees and groves of trees. She is symbolized by a pole found beside the altar in a Canaanite high place of idolatry. Her cult penetrated into Judah through Maachah (King Asa's grandmother) and Israel through Jezebel. Manasseh placed a carved Asherah pole in the Jerusalem Temple. She is worshipped as the Queen of Heaven.
Mary, Queen of Heaven, Lady of the Sea, Madonna, Cedar of Lebanon, Reconciler, Our Lady of the Highways, Our Lady of Lourdes, Queen of the Rosary, etc.
Bacchus
A god of wine and intoxication.
Saint John
Bellona
A goddess of war and battles, her worship was popular among Roman soldiers. She allegedly accompanies Mars in battle, and was either his wife or sister or both. Her festivals are celebrated on March 24 (the Dies Sanguinis, the Day of Blood) and June 3. Bellona’s attribute is a sword and she is depicted wearing a helmet and armed with a spear and a torch.
Saint Maurice
Bona Dea
A goddess protector of women and the matron of both fertility and virginity in females. She was especially revered by matrons. Also a goddess of medicine. Her festival is celebrated on May 1, the nights of May 3-4, and December 3. Her day is Wednesday. Bona Dea was portrayed sitting on a throne, holding a cornucopia. The snake is her attribute, a symbol of healing.
Twin Saints Cosmas and Damian
Brigid
A goddess of fire and fertility. In her temple at Kildare, vestal virgins tended an eternal fire. On her feast day, her statue was washed in the sea (purification) and then carried in a cart through the fields surrounded by candles.
Saint Brigid
Camenae
A goddess of wells and springs. In Rome, they were worshipped in a sacred forest at the Porta Capena.
Saint Florian
Candelifera
A goddess of birth.
Saint Gerard
Cardea
A goddess of thresholds, especially doors and thereby the home, and of children against evil spirits. Sacred tree the hawthorn.
Saint Agrippina
Carmenta
A goddess of childbirth and prophecy. Her festivals were celebrated on January 11 and 15. A triple goddess with her two sisters: Porrima 'looking forward'; and Postvorta 'looking back'. Inventor of the arts and sciences as well as the Roman alphabet.
Saint Catherine of Sweden, Saint Catherine of Siena and Saint Eulalia of Merida
Carnea
A goddess of door handles. Her festival day is celebrated on June 1. She was made offerings of pork and white beans. Also the goddess of the bodily organs, especially the heart.
Saint Drogo
Ceres
A goddess of corn, agriculture and grain. Her festival day is celebrated on February 2, April 1 and 11-19, August 23, September 1, October 4-5, November 8, and December 3. Her days are Wednesday and Friday.
Saint Anthony of Padua
Cinxia
A goddess of marriage.
Saint John Francis Regis
Clementia
A goddess of clemency.
Saint Dominic
Cloacina
A goddess of drains and sewers, which drained refuse under the city of Rome. Her temple was near the Forum, the area drained by the Cloaca Maxima, Romes largest sewer.
Saint Vitus
Coelus
A god of the sky and the heavens. The personification of the sky. His wife is Terra.
Saint Andrew Avellino
Concordia
A goddess of concord. She is pictured seated, wearing a long, flowing robe and holding a sacrificial bowl in her left hand and a cornucopia in her right. Her temple was the meeting place of the Roman Senate.
Saint Fiacre
Conditor
A god of harvesting crops.
Saint Magnus of Fussen
Consus
A god of grain storage. His animal is the mule. His festivals are celebrated on August 21 and December 15. He is also the god of secret consuls.
Saint Guy of Anderlecht
Convector
A god of harvesting crops.
Saint Magnus of Fussen
Copia
A goddess of wealth and plenty. She is pictured with a cornucopia.
Saint Servatus
Cuba
A goddess who watches over infants in their cribs and lulls them to sleep.
Saint Nicholas of Tolentino
Cunina
A goddess of infants.
Saint Raymond Nonnatus
Cupid
A god of sexual love. Venus' son. He is seen as either a winged infant with a bow and arrow, or as a youth with his lover Psyche.
Saint Valentine
Dea Tacita
A goddess of the dead and the earth. The silent goddess.
Saint James the Lesser
Decima
A goddess of childbirth. With Nona and Morta she forms the Parcae (the three fates).
Saint Leonard of Noblac
Dei Lucrii
A god of profit.
Saint Servatus
Devera
A goddess of the brooms used to purify a ritual site.
Saint Adelelmus
Deverra
A goddess of women in labor and the patron of midwives.
Saint Raymond
Diana
A goddess of the moon, fertility, nature and childbirth. Mother with Lucifer, her brother, of Aradia, goddess of witches. Her festivals are celebrated on May 26-31 and August 15. On August 13 Diana is invoked to protect the harvest from storms. Her day is Monday. Her weapons are the bow and arrow. She is worshipped on mountaintops and in sacred forests. She is the patron of the working class and slaves. She is often pictured as a hunter who is accompanied by a deer.
Saint Rita of Cascia
Dis Pater
A god of the underworld and treasure in the form of gems and metals of the earth.
Saint Eligius
Disciplina
A goddess of discipline.
Saint Louise de Marillac
Discordia
A goddess of discord and strife who preceded the chariot of Mars into battle.
Saint Agricola of Avignon
Dius Fidus
A god of oaths.
Saint Pancras
Egestes
A goddess of poverty. She is the personification of poverty.
Saint Agricola of Avignon
Empanda
A goddess of openness, friendliness and generosity. She is the personification of these qualities.
Saint Dymphna
Endovelicus
Pre-Roman god of Spain and Portugal who was adopted by the Romans. The God of health and welfare.
Saint Brigid
Eventus Bonus
A god whose name means good ending. He insured success in business and a good harvest.
Saint Germaine Cousin
Fabulinus
A god who taught children their first word. An offering was made to him on this occasion.
Saint John Chrysostom
Fama
A goddess of Fame and Rumor. She spread rumors through all the heavens and earth. Sort of the National Enquirer of her day.
Saint Francis de Sales
Fauna
A goddess of the Earth, Mother Goddess and Fertility Goddess. Daughter or wife of Faunus. Usually identified with Bona Dea.
Saint Francis of Assisi
Faunus
A god of the wilds and fertility. He is the protector of cattle also referred to as Lupercus. He is the giver of oracles. The wolfskin, wreath, and a goblet are his attributes. His festivals is Lupercalia and is celebrated on February 14-15 and the festival of Faunalia on December 5.
Saint Perpetua
Faustitas
A goddess protectress of herds of livestock.
Saint Mark
Febris
A goddess protectress against fevers.
Saint Genevieve
Felicitas
A goddess of success. She is the personification of success.
Saint Julia of Billiart
Feronia
A goddess of freedom and good harvest. She was often worshipped by slaves to achieve their freedom. Her festival is celebrated on November 15.
Saint Walburga
Fides
A goddess of faithfulness and good faith. She was invoked during the signing of treaties and the treaties are kept in her temple.
Saint Pancras
Flora
A goddess of Spring and the blooming flowers. Her festival Floralia, is celebrated on April 28 - May 1.
Saint Therese of Lisieux
Fontus
A god of fountains, wells and springs. His festival is celebrated on October 13. He is the son of Janus and Juturna.
Saint John Nepomucene
Fornax
A goddess of bread baking and ovens.
Saint Elizabeth of Hungary
Fortuna
A goddess of fate. Patroness of bathhouses and once-married matrons. Shown with a wheel, sphere, a ships rudder, or a cornucopia. Sometimes she is pictured with wings.
Saint Daniel of Padua
Furies
A goddess of vengeance. She lives in the underworld and torments wrongdoers. Equivalent to the Greek Erinyes.
Saint Benedict
Furina
A goddess of thieves.
Saint Nicholas of Myra
Honos
A god of morality and military honor. Pictured as a young warrior carrying a spear and a cornucopia.
Saint Martin of Tours
Indivia
A goddess of jealousy.
Saint Elizabeth of Portugal
Janus
A god of gates, doors, beginnings and endings. He is usually pictured as a double-faced god, one face looking in either direction and holding a key in his right hand. He represents beginnings, boundaries, times of change, and transitions. He was worshipped at the beginning of the harvest, the beginning of planting, at marriages, at births; in short at all times of transition or the start of things. The month of January is named after him.
Saint Vincent Ferrer
Juno
Queen of the gods. Jupiter’s wife/sister, sister to Neptune and Pluto, daughter of Saturn, mother of Juventas, Mars, and Vulcan. Protectress of the Roman state. She was the guardian of the Empire's finances and considered the matron goddess of all Rome. The Matronalia, her major festival is celebrated on March 1-2. Other festivals to Juno took place on January 1, February 1-2, March 7, June 1-2, July 7-8 and November 13. The month of June was named after her.
Saint Mary
Jupiter
Ruler of the gods. He is the god of sky, lightning and thunder. He is the son of Saturn and brother of Neptune, Pluto and Juno, who is also his wife. His attribute is the lightning bolt and his symbol the eagle, who is also his messenger. He was also considered the patron god of Rome, and his temple was the official place of state business and sacrifices.
Saint Gertrude the Great and St. Peter, the Apostle
Justitia
A goddess of justice. Often pictured blindfolded, holding a set of scales and a sword or scepter.
Saint Martin de Porres
Juturna
A goddess of Lakes, Wells and Springs. Her festivals are January 11 and August 23. Also the wife of Janus.
Saint Florian
Juventas
A goddess agriculture
of youth.
Saint Gabriel Francis of our Lady of Sorrows
Lactans
A god of agriculture.
Saint Adam
Laverna
A goddess of unlawful gain and trickery. The patron of thieves, con artists and frauds.
Saint Dismas
Liberalitas
A god of generousity.
Saint Julian the Hospitaler
Libertas
A goddess of freedom and Liberty, pictured with a pileus (pointed cap of liberty) and a scepter
Lady Liberty
Libitina
A goddess of funerals. Her temple contained all of the necessary implements for funeral services. A piece of money had to be brought to her temple whenever anyone died. Later equated with Proserpina.
Saint Margaret of Antioch
Lima
A goddess of thresholds.
Saint Thomas
Lucifer
A god of the morning star, the planet Venus, and the son of Aurora. He is Diana’s brother and they together produced Aradia.
Saint Dionysius the Aeropagite
Lucina
A goddess of childbirth and midwifery. Later equated with Juno.
Saint Raymond Nonnatus
Luna
A goddess of the moon. Later identified with Diana and the Greek goddess Selene.
Saint Dominic
Maia
A goddess of fertility and spring. The goddess for whom the month of May is named. Often equated with Fauna and Ops.
Saint Rita of Cascia
Maiesta
A goddess of honor and reverence. Wife of Vulcan.
Saint Elizabeth of Hungary
Mania
A goddess of the dead. Guardian with Mantus of the underworld. Referred to as the mother of ghosts. Her name means insanity and she is the personification of madness.
Saint Frances of Rome
Mars
A god of war. One of the most important of the Roman deities. He was originally a god of the earth, spring, and fertility. He is the son of Jupiter and Juno, and may be the father of Romulus and Remus.
Saint Francis of Assisi
Matuta
A goddess of the dawn, harbors and the sea. Patron of newborn babies. Her festival day is celebrated on June 11.
Saint Philip of Zell
Meditrina
A goddess of wine and health. Her name means healer. Her festival is the Meditrinalia celebrated on October 11.
Saint Vincent Saragossa
Mefitis
A goddess of poisonous vapors from the earth. She was worshipped especially in volcanic areas and swamps.
Saint Pirmin
Mellona
A goddess and protector of Bees. Her name comes from the word “honey.”
Saint Dominic of Silos
Mena
A goddess of menstruation.
Saint Cadoc
Mens
A goddess of the mind and consciousness. Her festival is celebrated on May 8.
Saint Pantaleon
Mercury
A god of trade, profit, merchants and travellers. His main festival, the Mercuralia, was celebrated on May 15 and on this day the merchants sprinkled their heads and their merchandise with water from his well near the Porta Capena. The symbols of Mercury are the caduceus (a staff with two intertwined snakes) and a purse (a symbol of his connection with commerce). Pictured dressed in a wide cloak, wearing winged sandals and a winged hat. He was eventually identified with the Greek Hermes.
Saint John Nepomucene
Messor
A god of agriculture and mowing.
Saint Adam
Minerva
A goddess of wisdom, learning, the arts, sciences, medicine, dyeing, trade, and of war. Wife of Jupiter, protectress of commerce, industry and education. Honored at the spring equinox with her main festival, March 19 - 23, called the Quinquatria.
Saint Homobonus
Moneta
A goddess of prosperity.
Saint Marguerite Bourgeoys
Mors
A god of death. Equivalent of the Greek Thanatos.
Saint Michael, the Archangel
Morta
A goddess of death and one of the three Parcae.
Saint Margaret of Antioch
Muta
A goddess of silence. She is the personification of silence.
Saint John Nepomucene
Mutinus Mutunus
A god of fertility. Invoked by women seeking to become pregnant.
Saint Andrew
Naenia
A goddess of funerals.
Saint Joseph of Arimathea
Necessitas
A goddess of destiny. Similar to the Greek Ananke.
Saint Francis Xavier
Nemestrinus
A god of the woods.
Saint John Gualbert
Neptune
A god of the Sea. Brother of Jupiter, Pluto and Juno. The god and patron of horses and horse racing as Neptune Equester. Neptunalia was celebrated on July 23. The trident is Neptune's attribute. Similar to the Greek Poseidon.
Saint Brendan
Nona
A goddess of pregnancy. She was called upon in the ninth month of pregnancy when it was time for the child to be born. One of the Parcae with the goddesses Morta and Decima, the Roman fates.
Saint Raymond Nonnatus
Nundina
A goddess of the ninth day, on which the newborn child was given a name.
Saint Rita of Cascia
Obarator
A god of ploughing.
Saint Walburga
Occator
A god of harrowing.
Saint Jodocus
Ops
A goddess of the fertile earth, abundance, sowing, harvest and wealth. The sister and wife of Saturn. One of her festivals is celebrated on August 10, another festival was the Opalia, which was observed on December 9. The Opeconsiva, on August 25 is her primary festival, but is participated in only by her priests and the Vestal Virgins.
Saint Medard of Noyon
Orbona
A goddess of parents who lost their children. She could grant them more and parents prayed to her for this purpose.
Saint Angela
Orcus
A god of death and the underworld. Also a god of oaths and punisher of perjurers.
Saint Pancras
Pales
A goddess of shepherds and flocks. Her festival was celebrated on April 21.
Saint Antony the Abbot
Parcae
A goddess of fate. Similar to the Greek Moirae. The goddesses Nona, Morta and Decima make up the group. The three Parcae are also called Tria Fata.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Pax
A goddess of peace. Her festivals are celebrated on January 3, 30 and July 4. Her attributes are the olive branch, a cornucopia, and a scepter.
Infant Jesus of Prague
Penates
A god of the storeroom and the household. He was worshipped at the hearth and given a part of each meal.
Saint Barbara
Picus
A god of Agriculture and he had the gift of prophecy.
Saint Isidore, the Farmer
Pietas
A goddess of piety and a sense of duty to the state and the gods.
Saint Joseph
Pluto
A god of the underworld. The son of Saturn, brother to Jupiter and Neptune. Pluto's wife was Proserpina, whom he captured. Black sheep were given as sacrifices to Pluto. Equivalent to the Greek Hades.
Saint Stanislaus Kostka
Poena
A goddess of punishment.
Saint John of Capistrano
Pomona
A goddess of fruit trees and orchards. Her attribute is the pruning knife.
Saint Charles
Portunes
A god of ports and harbors. He is the guardian of storehouses and locked doors. His attribute is a key. His festival keys were thrown into a fire to safeguard them against misfortune.
Saint Zita
Porus
A god of plenty.
Saint Lawrence
Priapus
A god of gardens, viniculture, sailors and fishermen. He is a fertility god.
Saint Erasmus (St. Elmo)
Prorsa Postverta
A goddess of women in labor. She who oversaw the position of the fetus in the womb.
Saint Margaret
Providentia
A goddess of forethought.
St. Alphonsus Marie Liguori
Pudicitia
A goddess of modesty and chastity.
Saint Agnes
Puta
A goddess of the pruning of vines and trees.
Saint Urban
Quirinus
An Italian god whose origins are uncertain and worship is not well-known. His consort is Hora. He was usually depicted as a bearded man who wears clothing that is part clerical and part military.
Saint John of Capistrano
Quiritis
Italian goddess of motherhood.
Saint Monica
Robigo
A goddess of corn.
Saint Honoratus
Robigus
A god who protected corn from diseases. His festival, the Robigalia, took place on April 25.
Saint Sebastian
Roma
Personified goddess of the city of Rome. She is portrayed as a helmeted woman sitting on a throne, holding a spear and a sword. Resting against her throne is a shield.
Saint Philip
Rumina
A goddess of nursing mothers, both human and animal.
Saint Bisilissa
Salus
A goddess of health and prosperity. Her attribute was a snake or a bowl and her festival was celebrated on March 30. Equivalent to the Greek Hygieia.
Saint Anthony of Padua, Doctor of the Church
Sancus
A god of oaths and good faith. He is also called Semo Sancus Dius Fidus.
Saint Pancras
Saritor
A god of weeding and hoeing.
Saint Phocas, the Gardener
Saturn
A god of agriculture and the sowing of seeds. Married to Ops. The father of Jupiter, Ceres, Juno and many others. Saturnalia began on December 17 and lasted for seven days. During this festival, businesses closed and gifts were exchanged. Saturday is named after him.
Saint Walburga
Securitas
A goddess of security and stability.
Saint Michael, the Archangel
Semonia
A goddess of sowing.
Saint Ansovinus
Silvanus
A god of forests, groves, wild places and boundaries. A fertility god associated with flocks and herds. His attributes are a pruning knife and a bough from a pine tree.
Saint Rita of Cascia
Sol
A god of the sun. The same as the Greek Helios. Later worshipped as the god of the State, Sol Invictus, who had been imported from Syria.
Saint Dominic
Somnus
A god of sleep. The same as the Greek Hypnos.
Saint Raphael the Archangel
Sors
A god of luck.
Saint Agricola of Avignon
Spes
A goddess of hope. Shown as a young woman holding a cornucopia and a flower.
Saint Rose of Viterbo
Stata Mater
A goddess who guards against fires. Sometimes equated with Vesta.
Saint Martha
Stimula
A goddess who incites passion in women. Equated with the Greek Semele.
Saint Mary Magdelene
Strenua
A goddess of strength and vigor. Worshiped at new year.
Saint Andrew Avellino
Suadela
A goddess persuasion, especially in matters of love. A member of Venus's retinue.
Saint Valentine
Subruncinator
A god of weeding.
Saint Phocas the Gardener
Summanus
A god of night thunder. His festival is celebrated on June 20. (Jupiter was the god of thunder during the day.)
St. Francis of Paola
Tellus
A goddess of the earth. Fordicidia, held on April 15 was her festival. Like the Greek Gaia.
Saint Gregory the Wonderworker
Tempestes
A goddess of storms.
Saint Vitus
Terminus
A god of the boundaries between fields. His sacred object was the boundary stone, which was cleansed and given sacrifices of blood and flower garlands during an annual festival celebrated on February 23 to renew the stone's energy.
Saint Thomas
Terra Mater
Mother Earth - A goddess of fertility and the earth. Fordicidia on April 15 her main festival, with another June 1-3. She watched over marriage, producing children, and the fertility of the soil.
Saint Agatha
Trivia
A goddess of the crossroads. She is portrayed with three faces and sometimes equated with the Greek Hecate.
Saint Sebastian of Aparicio
Vacuna
Sabean goddess of agriculture. She was worshipped in the sacred forest.
Saint Therese of Lisieux
Veiovis
One of the oldest gods. Veiovis is portrayed as a young man, holding a bunch of arrows (or lightning bolts) in his hand, and is accompanied by a goat. Probably based on the Etruscan god Veive, and equated later with the Greek Asclepius.
Saint Magnus of Fussen
Venus
Originally a goddess of gardens and vineyards, Venus became the major deity of love and beauty after the influx of Greek deities. On August 18 the Vinalia Rustica was observed. A second festival, that of the Veneralia, was celebrated on April 1 in honor of Venus Verticordia, who later became the protector against vice.
Saint Rose of Lima
Veritas
A goddess of truth.
Saint Raymond Nonnatus
Vertumnus
A god of the changing seasons and the ripening of fruits and grains. He is the patron of fruit trees.
Saint Christopher
Vesta
A goddess of the fire (both sacred and domestic) and the Hearth. Daughter of Saturn and Ops. Her sacred animal was the donkey. Patroness of bakers. Her chief festival was the Vestalia on June 7. Other festivals were on: February 13; March 1; April 28; May 15; and June 9, 15, 24. One of the most-worshipped Roman deities. She is equated to the Greek Hestia.
Saint Martha
Victoria
A goddess of victory. Originally a protectress of fields and woods who became Goddess of Rome’s military success. Equivalent to the Greek Nike.
Saint Macrina the Elder
Virtus
A god of courage and military prowess.
Saint Barbara
Vitumnus
A god who gave life to children in the womb.
Saint Catherine of Sweden
Volumna
A goddess who protects the nursery.
Saint Margaret the Barefooted
Vulcan
A god of fire, blacksmiths and craftsmanship. His forge is located beneath Mount Etna. It is here that he, together with his helpers, forges weapons for gods and heroes. Closely associated with Bona Dea with whom he shared the Volcanalia, observed on August 23. Equated with the Greek Hephaestus.
Saint Leonard of Noblac
Vulturnus
A god of the East wind.
Saint Agricola of Avignon
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