Valentine's Day Mythology in Focus: How St. Valentine Came to be Eros

Well, it's Valentine's Day again.

Hopefully, everyone here will enjoy their day with somebody special.

Over the last few years, I began to try and take a deeper look into specific holidays like this, becoming fascinated with the history behind these individual holidays, to see how these holidays became what they are now.

I have done the same for Valentine's Day the last few years, but I ran into this article with some mythology/history on how Eros became St. Valentine, and it seemed worth sharing:

February Holidays Mythology II: How St. Valentine Became Eros Posted by Arthur George on February 11, 2016:

https://mythologymatters.wordpress.com/2016/02/11/february-holidays-mythology-ii-how-st-valentine-became-eros/