Valentines day is one of the most important and popular holiday;s to the Americans, When people share good kinds of gifts and proposals to there loved once and enjoying a romantic dinners. But the real history of Valentine's day turned out to a surprising celebrations. For example the root of valentine is from the Roman's games which holds every February called LUPERCALIA, Letter the Christian Church choose every Mid-Day of February in the year to say happy Val and to scrutinize the celebration.
Now Who Was ST. Valentine? There was not much about his names, first of all there more Christians with the pair of the name Valentine, One of them was sentenced to death for proclaiming a secrete marriage to lovers, after CLAUDIUS 2 banned marriage for the young Roman men thinking single men made a better soldiers.
Pope GELASIUS: Declared every February 14 as a day of honoring the Killing of ST. Valentine at the end of 5th century. It wasn't until the 1300s the holiday was associated with Love and Romance. back then people believed February 14th was also the beginning of Rose meeting season, the first written Valentine's greetings card trend in the 15th century and by 17th century the people of Great Britain has began a tradition of exchanging letters or cards.
Valentine's day cards then effected or caught on the people of U.S. as well as spreading so massively in the states(Card-O-Matic 1840's first Card) Then it exploded into the major we today's consumer holiday and now over billions of Valentine's cards are sent around and produced even more than Easter cards and Christmas.
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