Ready for A Night In? Join Tabby and Kate as they talk about the history of Valentine's Day and how it is inaccurately depicted most of the time, yet no one seems to care...

 01:20 Yes it was trendy to replace Pagan holidays with Christian holidays, but this is not what happened to Lupercalia 

02:00 What was Lupercalia? 

03:00 313CE Constantine converts the Romans to Christianity 

03:20 Pope Gelasius I abolishes Lupercalia, but does he actually canonize St. Valentine? 

05:00 Though multiple sources on the internet claim that Pope Gelasius canonized St. Valentine, no credible source is available to support this claim, thus the link between Lupercalia and Valentine's Day remains tenuous. 

07:00 The Middle Ages result in the association between Valentine's Day and courtly love

08:10 The Valentine's Day card became popular in the Chaucer Era and were then perfected in the Victorian Era. Sending cards was so popular that in the late 1800s over a million Valentine's Day cards were processed by the general post office in London. 

10:00 A Victorian Era NYTs critic decries the frivolity of Valentine's Day

11:00 In 1913 Hallmark Cards capitalizes off of the industrial revolution 

11:45 Valentine's Day is a billion dollar industry 

13:00 Valentine's Day reads as a mating ritual that we teach to children at an early age; A holiday that encourages gender roles, the idea that relationships are transactional, and stalker-like behavior. 

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