Ancient Origins
Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome, were believed to have been cared for by this animal.
she-wolf/ Lupa
Animal hides were used by Roman priests during Lupercalia for these two purposes.
fertility and purification
This emperor executed two men named Valentine on February 14th of different years.
Claudius II
The first recorded association of Valentine's Day with romantic love was by this English poet.
Geoffrey Chaucer
This company began mass-producing Valentines in the 19th century.
Hallmark
This city was the center of Lupercalia, the festival that preceded Valentine's Day.
Rome
Lupercalia included this type of lottery that paired men and women.
matchmaking lottery
Valentine supposedly sent the first "Valentine" greeting to this person.
Julia/ his jailer's daughter
This festival, celebrated by the Normans, was likely confused with St. Valentine's Day due to its similarity in name.
Galatin's Day
The chubby child with arrows, a common symbol of Valentine's Day, represents this Roman god, whose Greek counterpart is called Eros.
Cupid
The Roman festival celebrated from February 13th to 15th that is considered a precursor to Valentine's Day.
Lupercalia
Which two animals were sacrificed for fertility and purification?
goats and dogs
After Christianity spread to Rome and other lands, this emperor converted to Christianity and adopted Lupercalia and other pagan rituals to convert more pagans.
Constantine
During the Middle Ages, February 14th was believed to be the beginning of what kind of season?
birds' mating season
St. Valentine's Day has become a holiday largely driven by this aspect of society.
commercialism
This Roman god of agriculture was one of the deities honored during the festival promoting health and fertility.
Faunus
This practice during Lupercalia was believed to increase fertility in women.
whipping with the bloody hides
This pope combined St. Valentine's Day with Lupercalia in the 5th century.
Pope Gelasius I
The oldest known Valentine poem still in existence today wasn't written until after 1400 by this person imprisoned in the Tower of London to his wife.
Charles, Duke of Orleans
A modern global holiday that celebrates women's friendship and their mutual empowerment, typically marked as February 13th.
Galentine's Day
The date of the first Lupercalia festival is unknown, it most likely began with the founding of Rome in this century.
8th BC/ 800BC
Coinciding with the winter solstice, celebrating the promise of a spring harvest, Christmas used to be called ....
Saturnalia
One of the legends says that Valentine healed the jailer's daughter from .....
blindness
This king is believed to have commissioned a valentine note to Catherine of Valois.
king Henry V
February 15th is marked with what kind of Day or celebrations? Also recognized in China as Double 11 (November 11) originally called Bachelors' Day, as unofficial holiday and shopping season that celebrates people who are not in a relationship.
S.A.D. (Singles Awareness Day)