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What is the pagan festival Lupercalia and what does it have to do with Valentines Day?

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What is the pagan festival Lupercalia and what does it have to do with Valentines Day?

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Lupercalia, or the Feast of the Wolf was held on or about the fourteenth of February in honour of the she-wolf who suckled Romulus & Remus (mythical founders of Rome) it was a Spring (or the returning of) ritual of fertility.