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Why Do We Celebrate Valentine’s Day?
This holiday for lovers has roots in an annual Roman celebration called Lupercalia, held on February 15th. Men stripped naked, grabbed goat- or dog-skin whips, and spanked young maidens in hopes of increasing their fertility. The pagan celebration remained wildly popular well into the fifth century C.E., more than 150 years after Emperor Constantine had made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire. Church leaders could not eliminate the celebration; so it is believed that they converted it into a Christian festival with this story: The third century C.E. Roman Emperor Claudius II, seeking to bolster his army, forbade young men to marry. The priest Valentine performed marriages in secret, was caught and executed on February 14, 270. Valentine greetings for loved ones were popular as far back as the Middle Ages, but became the rage in 19th-century England. In 1850, Esther Howland, an American printer and artist, was among the first to publish and sell Valentines in the United States. In the early 1900s a card company named Norcross became one of the first companies to manufacture Valentines. With the exception of Christmas, Americans exchange more cards on Valentine's Day than any other time of year. In 1861, chocolate manufacturer Richard Cadbury created the first heart-shaped box of chocolate for Valentine’s Day; and commercialization took over.

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