The history of Valentine's Day

Love has many different meanings in each language, but it is a universal traditional day when people express their feelings for each other, either love or friendship. Valentine's Day was when the trading day for the course has influenced these feelings for others, in all cultures.

The origins of Valentine's Day, are plotted for the time Ritterfest connected with the day the Catholic church, but love and fertility nexus with this particular momentEnds Feb. 14 comes from ancient times in Greece, in Athens, when the schedule referred to a period between mid January and mid February Gamelion, a month dedicated to the sacred marriage of Zeus and Hera, therefore, are associated with love and fertility .

Lupercalia, the festival of Lupercus was the god of fertility, the counterpart of the Roman Empire and takes place on 15 February this time of purification rituals. Lupercus was represented as a half naked man dressed in goat skins.His priests sacrificed goats to God that day and after drinking wine, ran through the streets of Rome holding pieces of goat and do not touch one with them, even in women the belief in a material easy to obtain.

There is no written record of how St. Valentine became the patron of romantic love words, in fact, the Catholic martyrologies three different Saint Valentines under date of February 14, a priest in Rome, a bishop and martyr in InteramnaRoman province of Africa, in addition to disguise the origin of this feast.

However, in the fifth century, the feast of St. Valentine's Day was officially declared on February 14 by Pope Gelasius I in the 496th year in a subsequent transfer of this could only be an attempt to pagan holidays like Lupercalia celebrated to replace Rome until then. In addition to this historical context, the rest is legend.

Over time, the gift of blooming wild flowers, a common practiceand romantic love or affection between the parties to show on Valentine's Day. Daisy flowers became a sort of "yes" there is no love divination. Today, daisy its meaning of loyalty and innocence associated with the fifth wedding anniversary.

During the 19th century, took its place among the roses different meanings depending on their color or the number of flowers given on Valentine's Day. It 'was revived in the Victorian century, when the relics from the catacombs of SanHippolytus were identified with Saint Valentine.

In 1836 the relics of Pope Gregory XVI for Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church in Dublin, Ireland have been donated, but once again obscure the origins of Valentine (or Valentino) and his alleged relics at the shrine of Roquemaure in France and located in the church of St. Stephen in Vienna.

Instead of an uncertain Saint image of the 19th century, the number of the winged Cupid Valentine's Day, and together withshape heart-shaped cards and scraps of paper flowers are sent on this day, tradition remains today when a variety of flowers can be chosen online and anywhere only with the order delivered over the Internet.