Significance of Valentines’ Day Valentine’s Day is celebrated throughout the world and is widely considered as the beautiful day dedicated for the celebration of love.
However, very few of us know, and very few like you feel the need to know about the incredible saga that surrounds the legend of the original Valentine. The lovely legend goes like this...
The origin and evolution: The great Roman Emperor Claudius II, in the third century took a decision that his band of armies would be most efficient and effective if they were comprised young and unmarried men, who are not bound by the social ties and have no wives or families.
To achieve this vision of his, the Roman Emperor outlawed marriage for the men in his region and made fighting their prime responsibility.
There was a certain Bishop Valentine, who supposedly saw the prejudice of Claudius' declaration and continued to wed the young lovers in secret.
However, very soon the Bishop was discovered, and Claudius sentenced Bishop Valentine to death, and had him imprisoned.
It is said that while in prison, the Valentine fell in love with the daughter of the jailor, who visited him in his confinement, regularly. Before his execution, in his last letter to her, he declared his love and signed it as, "From your Valentine."
Group of your people started celebrating a festival in the middle of February. According to which, during the mid of February celebration, the young men selected the name of a teenage girl by lottery system to be his sexual-companion, for the coming year.
The Catholic Church wanted to put a stop to this and for this they looked for a patron saint that would help attract the attention of the youth.
They thus heralded Valentine, the saint who was beheaded by Claudius II in 270 AD, to be the Patron Saint of Love, and the mid of February ceremony, morphed over time to become celebrated as February 14 "St. Valentine's Day."
