lupercalia in A Sentence
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The Lupercalia festival.
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Lupercalia was a festival local to the city of Rome.
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At the end of the 5th century, Pope Gelasius I replaced Lupercalia with St.
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During the Lupercalia festival, in which fertility is celebrated, Marc Antony presented Caesar with a diadem(essentially, a crown).
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The Romans had a festival called Lupercalia in the middle of February- officially the start of their spring.
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Lupercalia, of which many write that it was anciently celebrated by shepherds, and has also some connection with the Arcadian Lycaea.
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That holiday(arguably the origin of Valentine's Day), called Lupercalia, celebrated fertility, and may have included a ritual in which men and women were paired off by choosing names from a jar.
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It should also be noted that while Pope Gelasius did ban Lupercalia and proposed a new holiday, it is thought by many historians to be relatively unrelated to modern Valentine's Day, in that it seems to have had nothing to do with love.
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(Although some argue that Candlemas was an attempt to replace other festivals, like the Roman feast of Lupercalia, though there is a much stronger correlation and evidence pointing to the church attempting to replace Lupercalia with what is now Valentine's Day, rather than Candlemas).
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