Lares

Lares (/ˈlɑːrz/; Latin: Larēs, [ˈɫa.reːs], archaic Lases, singular Lar), were guardian deities in ancient Roman religion. Their origin is uncertain; they may have been hero-ancestors, guardians of the hearth, fields, boundaries or fruitfulness, or an amalgamation of these.

Lares were believed to observe, protect and influence all that happened within the boundaries of their location or function. The statues of domestic Lares were placed at the table during family meals; their presence, cult and blessing seem to have been required at all important family events. Roman writers sometimes identify or conflate them with ancestor-deities, domestic Penates and the hearth. Because of these associations, Lares are sometimes categorised as household gods but some had much broader domains. Roadways, seaways, agriculture, livestock, towns, cities, the state and its military were all under the protection of their particular Lar or Lares. Those who protected local neighbourhoods (vici) were housed in the crossroad shrines (Compitales) which served as a focus for the religious, social and political life of their local, overwhelmingly plebeian communities. Their cult officials included freedmen and slaves, otherwise excluded by status or property qualification from most administrative and religious offices.

Lares, Africa

Lares was an Ancient city and bishopric in Roman Africa and remains a Latin Catholic titular see.

Its modern location is Henchir Lorbeus in present Tunisia.

History

Lares was important enough in the Late Roman province of Africa Proconsularis to became one of the many suffragans of its capital Carthage's Metropolitan Archbishopric, but like most was to fade.

Titular see

The diocese was nominally restored as a Latin Catholic titular bishopric in the 18th centuty, until 1933 also called Lari in Curiate Italian.

It has had the following incumbents, of the lowest (episcopal) rank with two archiepiscopal (intermediary) exceptions :

  • Bishop-elect Dionisio Francisco Mellado Eguíluz (1716.03.30 – ?)
  • Juan Llano Ponte (1769.11.20 – 1791.09.26)
  • Tommaso Gallarati Scotti (1794.02.21 – 1804.07.10)
  • Domenico Lombardi (1821.08.13 – ?)
  • Jules-François Philippe, Fransalians (M.S.F.S.) (1886.08.24 – 1904.04.16)
  • Joaquim Antônio d’Almeida (1915.06.14 – 1947.04.01)
  • Richard Henry Ackerman, Holy Ghost Fathers (C.S.Sp.) (1956.04.06 – 1960.04.04)
  • Lares (disambiguation)

    Lar(e(s)) can refer to :

  • Lares, (plural of Latin Lar) Roman household gods
  • Lares, Africa, an Ancient city, former bishopric and present Latin Catholic titular see in present Tunisia
  • Lares, Puerto Rico, a town in Puerto Rico
  • LARES is a former name of the Romanian airline TAROM
  • LARES, an electroacoustic enhancement system
  • LARES (satellite), a scientific satellite launched by the Italian Space Agency
  • Lare may refer to :

  • Lare (woreda), a woreda (district) in Ethiopia
  • the Lare dialect of the Gallong language, spoken in Northeast India
  • Podcasts:

    PLAYLIST TIME:

    Liars

    by: Liars

    My little way to keep us in the papers
    We like to truck it out
    It's our own gamble
    I waste away
    To Weak below the ankles
    Know that we keep it clean
    We never get our shots
    I know we keep the piece
    and what they offer
    Do all the girls we knew
    and we'll get Shot
    I always wish for this option
    You like the world with the melody
    The real options are
    And for the worse they know
    They leave the color cool and black
    And watch the devil world
    And learn nothing in the end (x2)
    I won't stay out tonight
    Sorry bought that sir but you have to show your anger
    I enlist a child to stand up for the honor roll
    Father enlists a girl to care about the answer
    I enlisted her to stand up for the honor roll




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