"Valentine's Day is characteristic of the place and time," Lenski ... While Saint Valentine's feast is no longer celebrated on Feb. 14 by the church, the celebration of love in the U.S. has continued.

The holiday of St. Valentine’s Day on 14 February was officially declared by the pope in 496 AD, leading some to believe that he had effectively replaced Lupercalia with the holiday honouring ...

Pope Gelasius declared Feb. 14 as St. Valentine’s Day in 496 AD, and the rest is this history.

The Roman Catholic Church recognizes St. Valentine, the patron saint of lovers, epileptics, and beekeepers, as a church saint. But in 1969, he was removed from the General Roman Calendar due to ...

Valentine's Day hasn't always been associated with romance. Here is the fascinating story of the dark history behind what made February 14 the love-fest it is today.

Valentine's Day is a time to celebrate romance and love and kissy-face fealty. But the ancient Romans had bloodier, drunker and more naked notions to mark the occasion.

Valentine’s Day -- the holiday made for a Hallmark movie. At least that’s what it seems like now. But it wasn’t always so closely associated with roses and teddy bears.

To the secular world, St. Valentine is synonymous with cards, chocolates and lavish gifts of roses to mark this saint’s day. But for the prior of Dublin’s Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel ...

St. Valentine’s relics were reportedly uncovered during an excavation in Rome in the early 1800s, though it is unclear exactly how his skull came to lie in the Byzantine church where it is found ...

A lot about this day is very mysterious. There's a lot historians don't know and where the dots always connect. As culture shifted with time, so did Valentine's Day and gift-giving began in the ...

Each Valentine's Day, millions of Americans gift their partners or loved ones with flowers, cards or candy as a token of their affection on Feb. 14. But while some see it as a commercialized ...