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Welcome! Today is Valentines Day is
a Western European Christian holiday, originally the Roman feast of
Lupercalia. It was christianized in memory of the martyrdom of St. Valentine
in AD 270, who, in medieval times, came to be associated with the union of
lovers under conditions of duress. The holiday is celebrated on Feb. 14th by
the exchange of romantic or comic verse messages called “valentines.” The
first commercial valentine greeting cards produced in the United States were
created in the 1840s by Esther A. Howland. Today millions of such cards are
sold annually. |
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