Held in mid-February, Lupercalia was celebrated to ward off evil spirits and promote fertility. Priests who worshiped Faunus dressed in goatskins, sacrificed two male goats and a dog, then ran around the city swatting women with pieces of goatskin from the sacrificial victims. It was thought that by being hit with the skin, a woman would be more fertile or have an easy birth. Strangely, Pope Gelasius didn't consider the rite to be very Christian, putting an end to it in 496 A.D. and establishing the feast of St. Valentine.

No one really knows who the real St. Valentine was — but some believe he was a Roman priest who secretly married young Christians, an act outlawed by emperor Claudius II in the 3rd century A.D. Valentine was sentenced to death by Claudius and, legend has it, before he was brutally killed, Valentine blessed the blind daughter of his jailor and restored her sight, enabling her to read the love letter he'd written her, which he signed "from your Valentine." They would have lived happily ever after except St. Valentine was then beaten with clubs, stoned and, mercifully, beheaded.

he second possible St. Valentine was the first Christian bishop of Terni, Italy. According to legend, he was beloved by the town and performed many heretical acts, including marrying a pagan man and Christian woman. Because the 3rd century was not a good time to be a Christian, Rome sentenced Valentine to death. He was executed on February 14th but his body was exhumed by three of his disciples and returned to Terni where it was buried in a sacred place.

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