Valentines Day

Valentine's Day

What is Valentine's day? Valentine’s day is held on February 14, a yearly day when you send or share love with a love oned or anonymously.  Valentine’s day is the day we celebrate the death for Saint Valentine. It is a day as another holiday for the Romans, the Lupercalia. A man name Valentinus was martyred on February 14. Being martyred is suffering or being sentenced to death as a penalty  for renouncing your religion. Valentine Day is the day for we celebrate this Saint. Saint Valentine was the saint who was responsible for love related things and for the engaged and happily married. Saint Valentine was the one who watches over the lives of others. During the time of the Romans, Emperor Claudius the second banned marriage. He banned marriage because he believed that the married men were  and will result in being the bad soldiers, because it was the time of war. To add on, Valentine saw Emperor Claudius beliefs unfair and arranged marriages in secret. Eventually when Claudius found out what Valentine was doing he threw Valentine in jail and sentenced him to death. During his time in jail, Valentine fell in love with the daughter of the jailer and on the day he was sentenced to killed he shared and wrote the jailer's daughter a letter. In the letter that Valentine sent it had a saying as we still used today, “ from your Valentine”. After sometime Valentine death, the Romans held a festival called Lupercalia. In this festival the church wanted to turn this festival into a day of remembrance of Valentine. Afterall St. Valentine started to be used as a way to express your emotions to others. As for today’s Valentine's day celebration is shared worldwide. Yearly on Valentine's day our emotions towards others are shared with chocolate, flowers, stuffed animals, roses,etc.