It’s interesting to consider how Saint Valentine would have felt, had he known of the traditions he would go on to inspire, about heart-shaped boxes full of sickly sweet chocolates and shop-bought cards bearing readymade romance. As legend has it, his martyrdom sprung from his performing weddings for soldiers who were forbidden from marrying, suggesting that he wasn’t quite the sentimentalist we have him down as.
Fortunately, in the 21st century there is far more to…
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