Nearly everyone celebrates Valentine's Day, but many are not familiar with the origins, some rather dark, of the holiday for lovers. Ngonidzashe Dzimiri of the Sunday Standard offers a history.
Dzimiri looks at the history of St. Valentine, a 5th century Roman bishop who defied the emperor to marry young couples, and Cupid, son of Venus, who pierced his lover's heart with an arrow to wake her from a deep sleep.
