Valentine’s Day 2023: Valentine’s Day is the day of lovers, it is the day when there is love in the air, it is the day when there is love in the air. Valentine’s Day started with the Roman Festival. By the end of the 5th century, Pope Gelasius declared February 14 to be St. Valentine’s Day, since then it has been celebrated. A Roman festival called Lupercalia was celebrated in the middle of February, it is believed that mass marriages took place on this day.
Why is it called Valentine’s Day (History of Valentine)
Saint Valentine used to exist in 270 AD, Saint Valentine promoted love a lot. At that time, King Claudius of Rome had a strong hatred of love and love affairs and he used to oppose it. All the talk of Saint Valentine’s love and its relation used to disturb the king there.
It is believed that the king of Rome did not believe in love marriage. The king of Rome believed that due to love or love affair Rome or any inclination towards someone distracted the attention of the soldiers and the people of Rome did not want to join the army.
In such a situation, the marriage and engagement of soldiers was banned in the Rome of King Claudius there. Saint Valentine did not like this at all and raised his voice against it and protested. Not only this, Saint Valentine went against the decision of the king of Rome and got marriages done.
All these marriages used to take place on 14 February in the form of group marriages. Because of this, Saint Valentine was hanged on February 14. Since then, Valentine’s Day was celebrated on 14 February in the memory of Saint Valentine. i.e. lovers day
Saint Valentine sacrificed his life for the ones he loved and today we celebrate Valentine’s Day in his memory. The whole world remembers his sacrifice and celebrates this day.
It is believed that when Saint Valentine was imprisoned, he wrote a letter from there to the jailer’s daughter, who could not see and believed in him very much. At the end of this letter, the saint had also written ‘From your Valentine’. According to a British website, the eyes of the jailer’s daughter miraculously lit up with the prayer of Saint Valentine.
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