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Saint Valentine's Day, Western European Christian holiday, originally the Roman feast of Lupercalia Lupercalia , ancient Roman festival held annually on Feb. 15. The ceremony of the festival was intended to secure fertility and keep out evil. Two male youths, clad in animal skin, ran around the city slapping passersby with strips of goat skin.
..... Click the link for more information. . It was christianized in memory of the martyrdom of St. Valentine in A.D. 270, who, in medieval times, came to be associated with the union of lovers under conditions of duress. The holiday is celebrated on Feb. 14th by the exchange of romantic or comic verse messages called "valentines." The first commercial valentine greeting cards produced in the United States were created in the 1840s by Esther A. Howland. Today millions of such cards are sold annually.

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The couple -- who had a daughter, Valentina Paloma Pinault, in 2007 in Los Angeles -- married discretely in Paris on Saint Valentine's Day.

A-listers celebrate Hayek-Pinault nuptials by AFP / AFP Global Edition

The spam arrives with the subject line: “love before Saint Valentine's day.

Email worm spreads under guise of Valentine's Day greetings by Angela Moscaritolo / SC Magazine

includes in this collection verse epistles, courtly live lyrics, and satires but also many medieval conventions such as the Saint Valentine's Day poem and the constant allusion to authorities.

The court poetry of Chaucer; a facing-page translation in modern ... by Reference & Research Book News

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