Tonight's ritual is the Lupercalia, the Roman celebration of the wolf thought to be the ultimate origin of Valentine's Day. |
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On the eve of the festival of Lupercalia the names of Roman girls were written on slips of paper and placed into jars. |
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On 15 February 44 he played a prominent role in the incident of the Lupercalia, offering a diadem which Caesar refused. |
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Unsurprisingly, Godwin includes a snippet on St Valentine's day, which evolved out of the ancient Roman feast of Lupercalia. |
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Valentine was beheaded on February 14, on the eve of the Lupercalia festival. |
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At the same period of the year, early spring, the Romans celebrated the festival of the Lupercalia, a fertility rite. |
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Lupercalia will play live in Rome at the Jungle Club on the 15th of Septembre. |
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Whipping has its origins in the pre-Christian festival of the Lupercalia or the wolf festival and was thought to promote fertility. |
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The matched young couple stayed together for the festival of Lupercalia. |
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Following abolition of the Lupercalia, young lovers from Rome adopted the romantic habit of exchanging love messages. |
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Among his acts, in 494 he changed the Lupercalia, a Roman pagan festival, into the feast of the Purification. |
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During the Middle Ages, the Church substituted its own festival for Lupercalia, in order to celebrate the Presentation of Christ in the Temple. |
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Patrick will be back here shortly for an appearance at The Glee Club in Cardiff in support of his fifth album, Lupercalia. |
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Check out his latest album, the gloriously-titled Lupercalia for a taste of what's in store. |
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More restrained and straightforward than previous albums, Lupercalia is joyous pop. |
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Open this Womad 2012 playlist with Spotify Last year the newly engaged pop iconoclast told Elizabeth Day how falling in love at first sight has inspired his album Lupercalia. |
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At the Lupercalia, a celebration of fertility held partly in his honour each February in Rome well into the Common Era, youths clothed as goats ran through the streets wielding strips of goatskin. |
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In ancient Rome, the festival of Lupercalia was celebrated throughout theĀ Empire in the month of February, i.e. at the end of the Roman year, which began on 1 March. |
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The following day, February 15th, began the Feast of Lupercalia. |
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