Valentine Day
Valentine’s Day St. Valentine:- Valentine’s Day goes back to the third century when it was originally the ancient pagan Roman festival of Lupercalis/Lupercalia, a fertility celebration that used to observed annually on February 15. The Catholic church began to rename pagan holidays with those of Catholic saints so people would still be celebrating, only what they were celebrating was suppose to be different. I suppose fertility and love are pretty close enough not to matter. In 496 AD, Pope Gelasius Lupercalia into a Christian feast day and set its observance a day earlier, on February 14 just to confuse people just enough to not question why. He proclaimed February 14 the feast day of Saint Valentine, a Roman martyr who lived in the 3rd century. It is this St. Valentine whom the modern Valentine’s Day honors. A lot happened of the course of centuries to Valentine’s Day and the who, what, why and where of the whole thing. What is most intriguing is that it was not unt...