During the original festival, men would sacrifice a goat and a dog ... The holiday is named after Saint Valentine, a martyr from early Christianity. However, there were several saints named ...

Please help me build a relationship based on trust, fidelity, and mutual respect, following your example of genuine love and sacrifice. Saint Valentine, patron of love and united hearts ...

As couples across the world prepared for Valentine's Day in February 2025, a rumor cropped up on social media that St. Valentine is not only the patron saint of lovers, but also of beekeepers ...

This day was essentially a drunken, sexually charged festival at the Palatine Hill in Italy — where men would sacrifice a dog ... on Feb. 14 to celebrate Saint Valentine and the sanctity ...

He declared Feb. 14 as the feast day of a St. Valentine, who had been martyred about 200 years before. But that theory emerged in an 1807 book without any evidence to support the connection ...

Candles are lit at the foot of a statue of St. Valentine inside the Shrine of St. Valentine in Dublin. (photo: Courtesy of Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and Shrine of St. Valentine ...