VALENTINE'S DAY

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VALENTINE'S DAY

Valentine's day is a time to celebrate romance and love and kissy-face fealty. But the origins of this festival of candy and cupids are actually dark, bloody-and a bit muddled. Though no one has pinpointed the exact origin of the holiday, one good place to start is ancient Rome, where men hit on women by, well, hitting them.

THOSE WILD AND CRAZY ROMANS

From Feb. 13 to 15, the Romans celebrated the feast of Lupercalia. The men sacrificed a goat and a dog, then whipped women with the hides of the animals they had just slain. The Roman romantics "were drunk. They were naked," says Noel Lenski,a historian at the University of Colorado at boulder. Young women would actually line up for the men to hit them, Lenski says. They believed this would make them fertile. The Ancient Romans may also be responsible for the name of our modern day of love. Emperor Claudius II executed two men- both name Valentine-on Feb.14 of different years in the 3rd century A.D. Their martyrdom was honored by the Catholic Church with the celebration of St.Valentine's Day.

HOW DID VALENTINE'S DAY START?

The day gets its name from a famous saint, but there are several stories of who he was. the populate belief about ST Valentine is that he was a priest from Rome in the third century AD. 

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