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Valentine's Day occurs annually on February 14th. This is one of the few facts that we can say for sure, since the exact origins of the holiday are uncertain.
Many experts believe that it originated with "Lupercalia", an ancient roman festival that was celebrated on February 15th, to honor the roman god Lupercus, who watched over their shepherds and flocks. This festival can be traced back as far as the fourth century B.C. At Lupercalia, a lottery would be held in which the names of all the young women in the city were placed into a box. The young men of the city would then draw a name from the box and the couple would be paired together, for their mutual entertainment and pleasure, until the next Lupercalia. Determined to put an end to this eight-hundred-year-old practice, the early Catholic Church fathers sought a "lovers" saint to replace the deity Lupercus. They found a likely candidate in Valentine, a Christian priest who had been martyred about two hundred years......

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