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| Valentines
Day |
| Valentines day - the
romantic day for lovers. |
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| Saint
Valentine |
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| Saint Valentine was
a 3rd century priest and physician of Rome during the reign of Claudius II.
At this time Rome had to deal with rebels and invasion and Claudius II believing
that his soldiers would be
more likely to join his army if they were single, outlawed marriage. Valentine
who practiced Christianity defied this and continued to perform secret marriages.
He was subsequently arrested and failing to convert the Emperor
to Christianity was executed on 14th February 269. For this he was later canonised
and become Saint Valentine. |
| There are also another
two St Valentines mentioned by the early Roman Catholic Church who were supposed
to have been martyred on the 14th February: Valentine,
a bishop of Terni who suffered martyrdom in Rome and another
documented to have died in Africa about whom little is known. |
| The custom of
sending 'valentines' as a love token may have originated from a heathen
practice connected with the worship of Juno Februalis at the Lupercalia or in
the medieval belief that birds commenced to mate on 14th February. Juno was the
Queen of Gods and Jupiter’s wife. She was the Goddess of heaven and the
moon and symbolised the ideal matronly qualities that Romans desired in their
woman and was seen as the protector of women. |
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| Cupid - god of love |
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| Cupid is the Roman name for the god
of love (Greek Eros). He is usually represented as a naked, blindfolded, winged
boy with bow and arrows. |
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| The exact reason
why the 14th February is so special for lovers is obscured in history and
myth. |
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| Valentines Day - the
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