Fortuna Virilis

She shared a festival day with Venus Verticordia on April 1 (Kalendae Aprilis), which first appears with the name Veneralia in the mid-4th century AD.

[1] According to the poet Ovid, Fortuna Virilis had the power to conceal the physical imperfections of women from the eyes of men.

A note from Verrius Flaccus in the fragmentary calendar known as the Fasti Praenestini has been interpreted to mean that respectable women of the upper classes (honestiores) observed the Veneralia separately from those of lesser rank or dubious reputation (humiliores and prostitutes).

Valerius Maximus refers to the Temple of Fortuna Virilis in his Factorum ac dictorum memorabilium libri IX in book 1,8,4.

[5] In the early Middle Ages it was converted to a church perhaps called Santa Maria de Secundicerio.