From Feb. 13 to 15, the Romans celebrated the feast of Lupercalia. The men sacrificed a goat and a dog, then whipped women with the hides of the animals they had just slain. Happy Valentine’s Day!

Like with so many things in our modern-day lives, we are surround by pagan practices and rituals of all kinds from Christmas, Easter, the days of the week, and of course, Valentine’s Day. Christmas is the Roman Saturnalia, Easter celebrates Astaroth, the days of the week celebrate the Greek gods, and Valentine’s Day is a Roman fertility ritual called Lupercalia given to us in the closing days of political Rome as it was transitioning into papal Rome. Put that on a Hallmark card.

“For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.” Acts 17:23 (KJB)

As I have said many times, the Roman Catholic Church is not the ‘original Christian church’, they simply absorbed it after 3 centuries of trying their hardest to destroy it. All popes, none excluded, are a type picture of the coming Antichrist, and Revelation devotes all of chapters 17 and 18 to warn you about them. If you believe anything in the New Testament, you understand that Rome was the greatest killer of Christians that ever existed. For it was Rome who killed the Lord, put a spear through His heart, killed all the apostles including Peter and Paul, and did the work of the Devil to stop it. When Rome couldn’t stop it, it changed tactics and ‘became Christian’, so anyone who was a Roman citizen was now considered a Christian.

Now you know the difference between the church Jesus started, and the church that Rome started.

Lupercalia and the dark origins of Valentine’s Day

FROM NPR: The Roman romantics “were drunk. They were naked,” Noel Lenski, now a religious studies professor at Yale University, told NPR in 2011. Young women would line up for the men to hit them, Lenski said. They believed this would make them fertile.

The brutal fete included a matchmaking lottery in which young men drew the names of women from a jar. The couple would then be, um, coupled up for the duration of the festival — or longer, if the match was right.

“Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.”
1 John 4:10 KJB Valentine’s Day pic.twitter.com/BL0Kw2CN33

— LoriAnnforJesus (@redeemingtheti2) February 14, 2024

The ancient Romans may also be responsible for the name of our modern day of love. Emperor Claudius II executed two men — both named Valentine — on Feb. 14 of different years in the third century. Their martyrdom was honored by the Catholic Church with the celebration of St. Valentine’s Day.

Later, Pope Gelasius I muddled things in the fifth century by combining St. Valentine’s Day with Lupercalia to expel the pagan rituals. But the festival was more of a theatrical interpretation of what it had once been. Lenski added, “It was a little more of a drunken revel, but the Christians put clothes back on it. That didn’t stop it from being a day of fertility and love.” READ MORE

The Dark Origin & History of St. Valentine’s Day Is Called Lupercalia

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