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 ...

He's sometimes credited with implementing St. Valentine's Day, a holy feast day, to replace it, but we don't have definitive proof of that. Regardless, the Christian holiday eventually overtook ...

From naff cards to ostentatious flower bouquets – St Valentine's Day may be cheesy ... and describes a lavish feast of the royal court. The word Valentine then became synonymous with describing ...

while others state that the Christian Church may have decided to place St. Valentine’s feast day in the middle of February in an effort to “Christianize” the pagan celebration of Lupercalia.

Initially, St. Patrick's Day was a solemn religious observance in Ireland, featuring church services and feasts in his honor. However, as Irish immigrants spread around the world, particularly to the ...

Valentine's Day is almost here ... However, it is also believed that the Catholic Church chose to place St. Valentine’s feast in the middle of the short month to "Christianize" the pagan ...

This week, Margaret Gleeson and Jimmy Moynihan went to St. Valentine’s shrine ahead of the big feast day to have their engagement blessed by Bishop Denis Nulty of Kildare and Leighlin.

Pope Gelasius, I ended Rome's Lupercalia Day in the 5th Century. Meanwhile, Christians began to hold a feast on Feb. 14 to celebrate Saint Valentine and the sanctity of marriage. Saint Valentine's ...