These Three Remain: Faith, Hope and Love. But the Greatest of These is Love.
Valentine’s Day has come to be known as the day that everyone celebrates love, romance, or the prospect of either. Hearts, candy, flowers, jewelry, and plenty of kissy faced attempts at poetry have come to be the norm in our current society. However, if you have an inquiring mind, like I do, and you head out in search of the origins of this ridiculous day then you just might find that the festival of candy, flowers, and cupids have dark and even bloody origins. Early Roman celebrations of this day were violent. Romans celebrated the feast of Lupercalia. Lupercalia was celebrated on or about February 15th According to Roman legend, the ancient King Amulius ordered Romulus and Remus—his twin nephews and founders of Rome—to be thrown into the Tiber River to drown in retribution for their mother’s broken vow of celibacy. A servant took pity on...