Valentines Archive

  • Happy ‘Day of Purity’, Everyone!

    Over on the Guardian website, an article tracks the history of Valentine’s Day, from an ancient Roman festival of sexual love, to the Christian Party of the UK‘s celebration of abstinence.

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  • Playing Valentine

    Legend has it that one of the roots of Valentine’s Day stem from a third century ban on marriage passed by Roman emperor Claudius II who thought married men made poor soldiers. A priest named Valentine continued the marriage tradition by marrying couples in secret, […]

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