Happy Valentines Day Readers !!!! Why do we celebrate valentines day on February 14 ?
Valentines day is the day when everybody expresses love and affection towards each other but why ?
Most of the people don’t know why we celebrate valentines day and why we call it as “Valentines Day” and here is the story on it. Happy Valantines Day Readers.
The origin of valentines day has happened in the 3rd century Rome. when the people of Rome stated converting to Christianity, this has come into the sight of Emperor Claudius II who was very strict about converting. Later the Emperor had found the person who is responsible for the religious conversion and it is Saint Valentine. happy valentines day.
There was a time when Roman Empire has been in a struggle inside and outside the borders and that leads the army to suffer from the injuries occurred due to the war.happy valentines day.
The Emperor thought that the marriages of soldiers are the main distraction for them and he felt that the main reason for the defeat of the war. After all these, The Emperor decided and announced that no soldier should marry and marriages are banned for soldiers. Happy Valentines Day.
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That leads to the distress and leads to the mental illness of the soldiers. This is where the St. Valentine came into act, he is the only person to arrange marriages for soldiers secretly and gifted love shaped objects to the pair who got married. Many of the soldiers got married and maintained as secret but some day The Emperor got to know about the marriages of soldiers by the informer and the St. Valentine got arrested. Happy Valentines Day.
This was just the beginning of the story of St. Valentine, when he was sent to jail the saint started to talk with the fellow jail mates and making lectures about gods. The jailer named Asterius who got impressed by his knowledge and thought he can bring back the vision of his blind daughter named Julia and bought Julia to the saint . Saint continued to express and made Julia to imagine the words of saint and started imagination about the beauty of world and the history of Roman Empire and the gods of empire. Soon after this Julia got her vision by the help of St. Valentine. Happy Valentines Day.
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The Emperor noticed the proceedings conducted in the jail by the saint and arranged a meeting with saint and ordered the saint to stop marriages of soldiers and religious conversion activities immediately but the saint refused to stop, then Emperor ordered for the death sentence of the saint. St. Valentine wrote a letter to Julia to express his love and handed it to Asterius and got sentenced to death. When she opened the letter she saw his sign, “From your Valentine”. Happy valentines day.
Later in 496 AD, The Popo Gelasius declared 14th February as an official holiday to honor St. Valentine. Today valentine’s day is the fifth largest consumer spending event in the United States after the winter holidays and Mother’s day. This is the reason why we celebrate valentines day in February 14 and why we call it as Valentine’s day . So it’s a day to express love and affection to the one we love. So here is why we celebrate Happy Valentine’s day and make sure that you know the reason before you celebrate and express your love with Happy Valentines Day.