Where Did Valentine Day Came From?
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Have you ever wonder where Valentine???s Day came from? Was it really invented to create more business when Christmas is over? Just as soon as the stores put away their Christmas gift merchandise, next six weeks out comes the Valentine???s Day items.
Valentine???s Day actually came from a legend of a priest who defied the orders of the Roman emperor Claudius and continued to perform marriages, more than 1,500 years ago. Claudius knew that no young men wanted to join his army because they didn???t want to leave their girls and wives. When it was discovered that Valentine was still performing marriages in secret, he was sentenced to death. Valentine allegedly cured the jailer???s daughter of blindness, and on the night before his execution, sent a note to her signed ???from your Valentine.??? He reportedly died on Feb. 14, 269 A.D.
And in In 496 A.D., February 14 was named by Pope Gelasius to honor St. Valentine.
The first Valentines are credited to Charles, Duke of Orleans, who was imprisoned in the Tower of London during the 1400s where he wrote romantic verses that he sent to his wife.
A woman named Esther Howland is credited with sending the first Valentine in the United States.
The United States Postal Service is credited with advancing the popularity of sending Valentines when the penny postcard was introduced in the mid 1800s. Before that, sending mail was too expensive for the average person, because at the time, the person who RECEIVED the letter paid the postage and not the person who SENT the letter.
Nowadays Valentines were hand-painted cards decorated with lace and feathers and sequins and mass produced in thousands of designs and sizes from large to small ones, serious and silly; inexpensive and expensive ones for your dating and beloved.
Along with many different kind of Valentine???s merchandise, from the candy, the “Be Mine” read heart of those teddy bears and socks with little red hearts all over them, the posters, heart-shaped rings, necklaces and earrings, and many more.
After all, it???s been more than 1,700 years since he died and every Feb. 14, people are still celebrating Valentine???s Day.
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