St. Valentine is the patron saint of lovers, people with epilepsy, and beekeepers, among other things, but the real-life ...

There are at least three different St. Valentines the holiday could be about, according to History. All three were martyred. One is known to have been a priest in Rome. Emperor Claudius ll had ...

Or is the history darker, marked by Roman bacchanalia ... 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 ...

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 ...

Valentine’s Day has a history much more complex than many realize ... and finally gave way to the modern celebration of St. Valentine’s Day. The name-sake, Saint Valentine, is a mystery ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...