Ah, Valentine’s day: that Hallmark vacation out-of greeting cards and delicious chocolate, the bloody origins nearly entirely missing during the last 2,000 ages!

What began as the a great Christian meal date celebrating two or three very early Religious martyrs – the initial “Valentines” – grew to become associated with the flocks from winged cherubic Cupids, whose harmless-looking bows and you can arrows represent gentle relationship in the place of death-dealing combat. (suite…)