Saint Valentine was a Christian priest. The Roman Emperor Claudius banned marriage to prevent young men from avoiding the draft. This Christian priest Valentinus, performed the marriages in secret to those who wanted to get married. He was imprisoned and beheaded for violating the order of the Roman Emperor.
The festival developed innovations as noted in the articles after this post, and evolved and changed to the festival we have today.
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http://www.biblestudy.org/basicart/what-is-true-origin-of-valentines-day.ht ml
https://www.npr.org/2011/02/14/133693152/the-dark-origins-of-valentines-day
From Feb. 13 to 15, the Romans celebrated the feast of Lupercalia. The men sacrificed a goat and a dog, then whipped women with the hides of the animals they had just slain.
The Roman romantics "were drunk. They were naked," says Noel Lenski, a historian at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Young women would actually line up for the men to hit them, Lenski says. They believed this would make them fertile.
The brutal fete included a matchmaking lottery, in which young men drew the names of women from a jar. The couple would then be, um, coupled up for the duration of the festival — or longer, if the match was right.
The ancient Romans may also be responsible for the name of our modern day of love. Emperor Claudius II executed two men — both named Valentine — on Feb. 14 of different years in the 3rd century A.D. Their martyrdom was honored by the Catholic Church with the celebration of St. Valentine's Day.
Later, Pope Gelasius I muddled things in the 5th century by combining St. Valentine's Day with Lupercalia to expel the pagan rituals. But the festival was more of a theatrical interpretation of what it had once been. Lenski adds, "It was a little more of a drunken revel, but the Christians put clothes back on it. That didn't stop it from being a day of fertility and love."
Around the same time, the Normans celebrated Galatin's Day. Galatin meant "lover of women." That was likely confused with St. Valentine's Day at some point, in part because they sound alike.
As the years went on, the holiday grew sweeter. Chaucer and Shakespeare romanticized it in their work, and it gained popularity throughout Britain and the rest of Europe. Handmade paper cards became the tokens-du-jour in the Middle Ages.
Eventually, the tradition made its way to the New World.
Remark: NEW WORLD - NEW WORLD for the eventual implementation of the NEW WORLD ORDER, now that is scary. Beware of Romans bearing gifts to get you to be with them!
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Only you could post crap like this.
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Only you could post crap like this.
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So you're saying NPR is crap?
sacrificed a goat and a dog, then whipped women
I love the stones.
Only you could post crap like this.
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JOKE.
I should have been more specific.
I was referring to her "remark".
So you're saying NPR is crap?
Well Ron, that is the history of the holiday. It did not begin as a romantic chocolate, roses and romance day. Even today there is emotional extortion, men are supposed to go buy chocolates and flowers or be viewed as a bastard by many women. They are forced to comply with a cultural/society imposed expectation just to get along.
If they love someone they should do these things when they choose to do them, not because someone else decided on a particular day they HAVE to comply.
