When Valentine’s Strikes: The Hidden Rules of Love’s Most Strategic Holiday
The first Valentine’s card wasn’t sent in February. It arrived in 496 AD, when Pope Gelasius I declared February 14th the feast of St. Valentine—a move to Christianize the pagan festival of Lupercalia. But the modern obsession with *when Valentine’s* lands on the calendar isn’t just about saints or fertility rites. It’s a calculated collision … Read more
