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Belinda's Garden
Card, 5-1/2" x 5-1/2", w/ envelope
$2.50

Belinda's Garden, 6" x 6"
in "frameless" frame (no message)
$9.50

The Story of
Valentine's Day

have originated with
the old Roman festival
Lupercalia, observed
February 15, which
anticipated the
coming of spring. The
Lupercalia festival is
believed to predate
even the Romans.
fertility and
purification ritual,
there were also
human sacrifice and a
great deal of bawdy
rollicking.

When Christianity
spread throughout
Europe, missionaries
deliberately
associated the pagan
Lupercalia festival
with the February 14
Feast Day of St.
Valentine.

There are two
Christian martyrs by
who became known as
St. Valentine. One
was a Roman priest
and physician who
lived in the third
century C.E. and the
other was a bishop of
Terni, in central Italy.

In the legends
surrounding the two
Valentines, they
protected Christians
from persecution and
officiated at marriages
during wartime, which
was forbidden.
Conducting these
secret weddings might
be why Valentine
became the patron
saint of lovers.

The Roman god Cupid
has long been a
patron of Valentine's
Day. In Greek
mythology, Cupid was
known as Amor and as
Eros—both meaning
love.

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