From naff cards to ostentatious flower bouquets – St Valentine's Day may be cheesy, but there's no doubt many people love it. From its early roots nearly 2,000 years ago, via celebrated poet ...

He declared Feb. 14 as the feast day of a St. Valentine, who had been martyred about 200 years before. But that theory emerged in an 1807 book without any evidence to support the connection ...

4. St. Valentine’s skull is on display in Rome If you visit the Basilica of Santa Maria in Cosmedin in Rome, you will find a skull decorated with flowers. It is said to be the actual skull of St ...

History Detectives stares down the barrel of a shotgun for clues that one of Al Capone’s men fired it in a Chicago gang massacre that shocked the nation. The gun came to our contributor’s ...

So, as a gift from us to you, we sifted through some of the most beloved Valentine's Day myths around, to help you sort the facts from the fiction. St. Valentine is most famously known as the ...

Themes: celebrating St Valentine's Day; the life of St Valentine; customs associated with St Valentine's Day; saints. Summary: This assembly celebrates St Valentine's Day, which falls on 14 ...

Elinor receives a valentine unexpectedly. She considers what Richard Morrison has written and how it might sway her, if she cared. Letty, Elinor's niece, believes she is going to get a valentine ...

How very absurd and medieval on his part to send me a valentine! A real valentine with, I have no doubt, birds and hearts and cupids and true lover's knots--and--arrows on it. I do not think I ...