Valentine's Day is celebrated on February 14th and is thought to be connected to the ancient Roman festival of Lupercalia.

Pope Gelasius I is said to have replaced the Roman fertility festival of Lupercalia with St. Valentine's Day in the fifth century. The first mass-produced valentines were sold in the 1840s. Today, ...

Valentine’s Day is a holiday for people worldwide to share their love and affection. But did you ever wonder how the holiday ...

According to History.com, exchanging Valentine's took off in the 1700s, a period coinciding with Romanticism in literature ...

Father Michael said Saint Valentine was one, very real person– or at least the man that the church honored with a feast was no legend. He said he did not know of the secret marriage ceremonies, but ...

Valentine’s Day, a celebration of love wrapped in candy hearts, roses and chocolates, traces back to St. Valentine. But the ...

In the original festival, men would sacrifice a goat and a dog, then run around naked or nearly naked, hitting women with the animals' hides.

Some scholars trace Valentine's Day back to ancient Greece and the mythical green meadows of Arcadia in the Peloponnese.

One legend contends that Valentine was a priest who served during the third century in Rome. When Emperor Claudius II decided ...

Every February 14, across the United States and in other places around the world, candy, flowers and gifts are exchanged between loved ones, all in the name of St. Valentine. But who is this ...

Through its long and diverse history, Valentine’s Day has evolved from an ancient fertility rite into a global celebration of ...

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