Some Valentines Day trivia...
In A.D. 496, Pope Gelasius I set aside February 14 to honor Saint Valentine, who was beheaded by Emperor Claudius on the day devoted to love lotteries.
In the Middle Ages, young men and women drew names from a bowl to see who their valentines would be. They would wear these names on their sleeves for one week.
The first true Valentine card was sent in 1415 by Charles, duke of Orleans, to his wife. He was imprisoned in the Tower of London at the time.
Esther Howland, a native of Massachusetts, is given credit for selling the first mass-produced valentine cards in the 1840s.
In 1861 Richard Cadbury reintroduced St. Valentine, creating a heart-shaped candy box for Valentine's Day, and began mass-marketing the first boxes of chocolate shortly thereafter.
Happy Valentines!
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