“The triad of Matres/Matronae, who generated and guaranteed well-being, abundance, and fertility, eventually changed into “Three Maries.”31 These Celtic pagan goddesses, made visible when Romanized folk remembered their local ancestral deities in dedicatory inscriptions, continued to exist in a new religious context, that of Christianity.”
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Vestal Virgins, Sibyls, and Matrons: Women in Roman Religion
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