Lupercalia is when Julius Caesar was offered the crown. Today, Lupercalia is probably most famous for what happened on February 15, 44 BCE. That day a “ naked, perfumed, ...

Celebrated between February 13 and 15, Lupercalia was a pagan fertility festival dedicated to Faunus, the Roman god of agriculture, and Romulus and Remus, the legendary founders of Rome.

Pope Gelasius I is said to have replaced the Roman fertility festival of Lupercalia with St. Valentine's Day in the fifth century. The first mass-produced valentines were sold in the 1840s.

Long before Valentine’s Day was celebrated, a festival that had nothing to do with love took place around the same time of the year. It was called Lupercalia, and it occurred on February 15 each ...

The original, that is. Before it was called Valentine's Day, back when it was called Lupercalia, a big Roman festival in honor of the fertility god Lupercus, before the ever-scowlin' church got a ...

Before Lamaze childbirth, fertility doctors and in vitro fertilization, there was the Roman fertility festival of Lupercalia, said by some to have been supplanted by the Christian feast of St ...

Eventually, Lupercalia was banned and Feb. 14 was deemed as "St. Valentine's Day." When was love first associated with the holiday? In the Middle Ages, ...

Pope Gelasius I is said to have replaced the Roman fertility festival of Lupercalia with St. Valentine's Day in the fifth century. The first mass-produced valentines were sold in the 1840s.

Pope Gelasius I is said to have replaced the Roman fertility festival of Lupercalia with St. Valentine's Day in the fifth century. The first mass-produced valentines were sold in the 1840s.

Pope Gelasius I is said to have replaced the Roman fertility festival of Lupercalia with St. Valentine's Day in the fifth century. The first mass-produced valentines were sold in the 1840s.