History Of Valentine’s Day

February 14, across the whole world with United States, gifts, cards and flowers are exchanged between friends and lovers, and this all in the name of St. Valentine. But no one knows the history of this mysterious saint, and from where these traditions are came? Let’s find about the history of this centuries old day. 

Mythology of St. Valentine The antiquity of Valentine’s Day and the tale of its patron saint is inconspicuous in mystery. Everyone knows February has long been acclaimed as a month of romance, especially February 14, St. Valentine’s Day, as we know about it today. But no one knows who was Saint Valentine. 

The Catholic Church admit somewhat three individual saints named Valentine or Valentinus, and all of them were annoy. One mythos confront about Valentine that was a priest who used to serve during the third century in Rome. In the meantime Emperor Claudius II determined that unmarried men could be better soldiers than those who had wives and families, he decided to outlaw marriage for men. Valentine accomplished the unlawfulness of the law declared by Claudius II, and dare to resist Claudius and continued to make marriages for young couples in secret. When Claudius came to know about Valentine’s actions, Claudius ordered to put him to death. 

Another story about Valentine suggests that he may have been killed for helping Christians escape harsh Roman prisons, where they were often humbled and crucify. According to others, an imprisoned Valentine literally sent the first “valentine” greeting himself after he fell in love with a young girl, might be his jailor’s daughter, who surely visited him during his custody. Few days before his death, it was suspected that he wrote her a love letter, a way of expression, still in use today. But the Valentine’s legendry story is still cloudy, there is not a particular story about Valentine’s Day, all assert his appeal as a sympathetic, a romantic figure. 

By the Ages of middle, Valentine would become the most popular saints in England and France and all around the world. Ancestors of Valentine’s Day: A Pagan Festival in February Some People believe that Valentine’s Day is used to celebrate in the halfway of February to immortalize the anniversary of Valentine’s death or burial, occurred about A.D. 270 and rest says that it is the decision of the christian church to set st.valentine’s feast day in the month of February to “Christianize” lupercalia. Lupercalia was a festival of fertility which is devoted to the Faunus, god of Roman agriculture, as well as to the Roman founders Remus and Romulus, celebrated on February 15 every year. In the beginning of the festival, Luperci’s members, an order of Roman priests, used to gather at a sacred cave where the infants Romulus and Remus, Rome’s founders, were postulate to have been cared for by a she-wolf or lupa. In this priests would sacrifice a goat, for potency, and a dog, for regeneration. Then they would strip the goat’s hide into strips, put them into the sacrificial blood and take to the streets, smoothly slapping both women and crop fields with the goat hide. 

Without any fear, Roman women welcomed the touch of the hides as it was believed that it would make them more fertile in the coming year. After some days, according to legend, all the young women in the city had to place their names in a big urn. The bachelors of the city would each select a name and become paired for the year with his selected woman and these pairs often ended in marriage.

Valentine’s Day: A Day of Romance Lupercalia remained the initial inflation of Christianity and but it was outlawed-because it was suspected “un-Christian”–at 5th century end, when February 14 declared as St. Valentine’s Day by Pope Gelasius. It was not too late, that the day became definitively associated with love. Throughout the middle Ages, commonly believed in France, England and other countries all around the world that February 14 was the birth of birds’ joining season, which generated the idea that Valentine’s Day should be a day for romance. Valentine greetings were also popular in Middle Ages, still written Valentine’s didn’t commence to arrive until after 1400. 

The earliest well-known valentine still in presence these days which was a famous poem authored in 1415 by Charles, Duke of Orleans, in the name of his wife when he was in the prison in the Tower of London, capture at the Battle of Agincourt. After several years, it is postulate that King Henry V hired a writer whose name was John Lydgate to write a valentine note to Catherine of Valois. Classical Valentine’s Day Greetings Along with United States, Valentine’s Day is used to celebrate in Canada, Mexico, France, the United Kingdom and Australia. Valentine’s Day began to popularly celebrate around 17th century, in Great Britain. In the mid of the 18th century, it became tradition among friends and lovers of all classes to exchange handwritten notes, and in 1900 printed cards replaced by written letters, all for improvements in printing technology. Built cards were an easy way for lovers to show their emotions when direct ways of expression of one’s feelings was dispirited. 

Cheaper postage rates also devoted to an increment in the popularity of sending Valentine’s greetings. In the early 1700s Americans probably began exchanging self-made valentines. Esther A. Howland began to selling the first mass produced valentines in America, in the 1840s. Howland, which is known as the “Mother of the Valentine,” made to define creations with real crochet, ribbons and colorful pictures which are known as “scrap.” These days, according to Greeting Cards Association, an estimated one billion Valentine’s Day cards are used to send every year, making Valentine’s Day one of the second largest card-sending day of the year.