1. St. Valentine's day. 7-A class

2. Valentine's Day - a holiday that February 14 is celebrated by many people around the world. Presumably named for one of the two early Christian martyrs named Valentine - Valentine Intersci and Valentin Roman.

3. Celebrating this holiday give your loved and dear people flowers, candy, toys, balloons and special cards (often in the form of a heart), with poems, love confessions or wishes of love - Valentines.

4. In 494, Pope Gelasius I tried to prohibit the Lupercalia. In the Orthodox encyclopedia notes that "it is more probable that the celebration of this day replaced Lupercalia, an ancient Roman celebration of female fertility, who was in the middle of February. Saint Valentine and the history of the holiday

5. In 494, Pope Gelasius I tried to prohibit the Lupercalia. In the Orthodox encyclopedia notes that "it is more probable that the celebration of this day replaced Lupercalia, an ancient Roman celebration of female fertility, who was in the middle of February.