In a cosmic coincidence, Venus — the planet named for the Roman goddess of love — will be at its brightest and best on ...

Despite the difference in accounts, Valentine is depicted as a romantic and heroic figure. Legends say the day has its roots ...

In the village of Vico del Gargano, in Italy’s Apulia region, Valentine’s Day is celebrated a bit differently. Saint ...

Whoever the Valentine was who gave us all the mid-February madness, he doesn’t deserve the credit at all. All the credit ...

January 2025 If you’re a person who shops early for Valentine’s Day, we salute your efforts. If you’re more in the, “Wait, Valentine’s Day is next week?” camp, well, you’re not alone.

In addition to the building of Dublin’s Whitefriar St. church, Our Lady of Mount St. Carmel, in 1826, Spratt also founded St ...

It’s almost Valentine’s Day… Actually, it’s almost St. Valentine’s Day, but who is St. Valentine and why is he associated ...

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Lupercalia was an ancient Roman fertility festival in mid-February where young men drew women’s names from a box, often ...

If you’re reading this, you’re frozen. Done. Stranded. It is February, the most dismal, depressing month of the year and here you are, trapped in one of the coldest winters LBI has lived through in ...

The history of Valentine’s Day—and the story of its patron saint—is shrouded in mystery. February has long been celebrated as a month of romance, and that St. Valentine’s Day, as we know it today, ...

Worldwide, February 14 is commemorated as Valentine’s Day, the ‘Day of Love’. Couples take the opportunity to declare their ...