The History of Valentine's Day

Many people throughout the world celebrate it, they go out and buy these gifts and chocolates for their significant other to make them feel special. And for some others, it reminds them of the fact that they don't have a significant other. But regardless people just celebrate it and most people don't know the history of it, I'm here to bring it to you.
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I am more convinced that Valentine's day was started as the pre-Roman empire ritual known as Lupercalia. Every February 13 - 15, goats and dogs were sacrificed at an altar by the Luperci as an offering, then people were "anointed" with the blood of animals, then cleaned with wool soaked in milk, then they ate and drank till they were full and drunk. After that is the weird part, the Luperci ran around naked and started smacking people with the skins of the animals they sacrificed. But the part of the Festival that leads me to believe that this is how Valentine's day was started is it is known that sometime during the festival, there was a sort of match-making between the men and women, which would pair them up for the rest of the festival or hopefully for life.

 Ultimately the Catholic Church came along and said the drunkenness and nakedness, and smacking people with animal skins was not holy and  "By the 5th century, Pope Gelasius I decided to create a new holiday right on top of the old pagan one to, well, make people forget about it."

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