Gaia Veturia Sacerdos (Nova Roma)
Gaia Veturia Sacerdos holds a B.S. in Architecture ( for buildings, not for computers ) and is a licensed architect in the state of California. She also holds a California real estate license, a clergy ordainment through a separate organization and has performed legal marriage rites in California.
Veturia became a believer in the ancient mythological religions as a "latchkey" kid with a fascination for the elementary school library. With no obvious religion to provide guidance, save her private studies of Greco-Roman mythology, her prayers for a normal family life were answered. Her mother remarried. She and her siblings were miraculously blessed with adoption by this new husband; a kindhearted, educated man who took the time to read children's storybooks aloud to the family ... a mysterious immigrant and a descendant from the outer realms of the ancient Roman Empire. Her childhood fascination with ancient temples in the Greco-Roman world became a foundation for her later studies in University. Between architectural contracts, Veturia discovered Nova Roma whilst doing online research regarding the Goddess Fortuna and eventually applied for citizenship. By this time, her research had expanded into a variety of different projects, including a website, a radio show and a nonprofit organization.
Veturia also learned divination as a hobby and turned it into a part-time career, at the same time earning occult credentials as a master tarot consultant and the title of high priestess. After becoming a citizen of Nova Roma Veturia added a Roman Oracle page to her website for divination by Homeric Lots. She is available for divination by email, live chat and phone.
C. Veturia Sacerdos was the first Nova Roma citizen to establish the Veturia gens. She was proud to choose the name as a tribute to the mother of Caius Marcius Coriolanus, Veturia, who was the founder of the Temple of Fortuna Muliebris; a feminist temple celebrating a return to peace from war, which was earned by a group of women who proved that they could bring peace to Rome. The Temple of Fortuna Muliebris was the only permanent temple in Rome that was completely run by women and which gave women, particularly women in their first marriage, the right to speak publicly.
Veturia was honored as first place winner of the Certamen Historicum, during the Ludi Novi Romani celebrating the XVth anniversary of the founding of Nova Roma shortly after becoming an active citizen of Nova Roma.
