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

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

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 ...

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.

Many legends claim to explain the origins of Valentine’s Day, but as is the case with legends, they leave many questions ...

Across the United States and in other places around the world, Valentine’s Day is a holiday celebrated on February 14.

While historians have long debated the holiday's origin story, evidence shows it predates the existence of commercial ...

For years, the consensus among historians was that the holiday had something to do with an ancient Roman festival called Lupercalia that fell in mid-February. Noel Lenski, a Yale University ...

Valentine's Day is celebrated on February 14th and is thought to be connected to the ancient Roman festival of Lupercalia. The holiday's modern traditions are largely attributed to Geoffrey ...

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.