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I'm sure everyone of you knows about Valentine's Day but many few of you will know about it's origins. Nothing written in history regarding Valentine's Day can be considered 100% true as There are a lot of misconceptions and arguments on this matter. I'll try to be as simple as possible and try to give that info which is mostly the same in the opinion of a lot of people.

ORIGINS

Basic Info

Saint Valentine's Day (commonly shortened to Valentine's Day) is an annual holiday held on February 14 celebrating love and affection between intimate companions. The holiday is named after one or more early Christian martyrs named Valentine and was established by Pope Gelasius I in AD 496. It is traditionally a day on which lovers express their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards (known as "valentines"). The holiday first became associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished.

Modern Valentine's Day symbols include the heart-shaped outline, doves, and the figure of the winged Cupid. Since the 19th century, handwritten valentines have largely given way to mass-produced greeting cards

Older tradition
The sending of Valentines was a fashion in nineteenth-century Great Britain, and, in 1847, Esther Howland developed a successful business in her Worcester, Massachusetts home with hand-made Valentine cards based on British models. The popularity of Valentine cards in 19th century America, where many Valentine cards are now general greeting cards rather than declarations of love, was a harbinger of the future commercialization of holidays in the United States. It's considered one of the Hallmark holidays.

The U.S. Greeting Card Association estimates that approximately one billion valentines are sent each year worldwide, making the day the second largest card-sending holiday of the year, behind Christmas. The association estimates that, in the US, men spend on average twice as much money as women.

Saint Valentine

Numerous early Christian martyrs were named Valentine. The Valentines honored on February 14 are Valentine of Rome and Valentine of Terni.


Valentine of Rome was a priest in Rome who was martyred about AD 269 and was buried on the Via Flaminia. His relics are at the Church of Saint Praxed in Rome and at Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church in Dublin, Ireland.


Valentine of Terni became bishop of Interamna (modern Terni) about AD 197 and is said to have been martyred during the persecution under Emperor Aurelian. He is also buried on the Via Flaminia, but in a different location than Valentine of Rome. His relics are at the Basilica of Saint Valentine in Terni.


The Catholic Encyclopedia also speaks of a third saint named Valentine who was mentioned in early martyrologies under date of February 14. He was martyred in Africa with a number of companions, but nothing more is known about him.


No romantic elements are present in the original early medieval biographies of either of these martyrs. By the time a Saint Valentine became linked to romance in the fourteenth century, distinctions between Valentine of Rome and Valentine of Terni were utterly lost.


In the 1969 revision of the Roman Catholic Calendar of Saints, the feastday of Saint Valentine on February 14 was removed from the General Roman Calendar and relegated to particular (local or even national) calendars for the following reason: "Though the memorial of Saint Valentine is ancient, it is left to particular calendars, since, apart from his name, nothing is known of Saint Valentine except that he was buried on the Via Flaminia on February 14.". The feast day is still celebrated in Balzan (Malta) where relics of the saint are claimed to be found, and also throughout the world by Traditionalist Catholics who follow the older, pre-Vatican II calendar.


The Early Medieval acta of either Saint Valentine were expounded briefly in Legenda Aurea. According to that version, St Valentine was persecuted as a Christian and interrogated by Roman Emperor Claudius II in person. Claudius was impressed by Valentine and had a discussion with him, attempting to get him to convert to Roman paganism in order to save his life. Valentine refused and tried to convert Claudius to Christianity instead. Because of this, he was executed. Before his execution, he is reported to have performed a miracle by healing the blind daughter of his jailer.


Legenda Aurea still providing no connections whatsoever with sentimental love, appropriate lore has been embroidered in modern times to portray Valentine as a priest who refused an unattested law attributed to Roman Emperor Claudius II, allegedly ordering that young men remain single. The Emperor supposedly did this to grow his army, believing that married men did not make for good soldiers. The priest Valentine, however, secretly performed marriage ceremonies for young men. When Claudius found out about this, he had Valentine arrested and thrown in jail. In an embellishment to The Golden Legend provided by American Greetings, Inc. to History.com and widely repeated, on the evening before Valentine was to be executed, he wrote the first "valentine" himself, addressed to a young girl variously identified as his beloved as the jailer's daughter whom he had befriended and healed, or both. It was a note that read "From your Valentine."

I know this info is quite confusing but it's the simplest of the tons and tons of content found on Internet.

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YOU GOTTA DECIDE

From Past 7 to 10 days I researched a lto n web regarding the truth behind this day, Regarding What's True. In the End all I got is..........Confusion. As being a MUSLIM I don't believe in all this but I just wanted to knew OK the start of the story or legend is same but endings differs in Christianity and Yahushua ha Mashiach

I'll give you a glipse of both, You can decide on your own what's truth

CHRISTANITY VIEW (Youtube Video) [HISTORY Channel]

YAHUSUA HA MASHIACH VIEW (Youtube Video)

Personally I favour one concept over another but I ain't going to say which as It can lead to bad things

VALENTINE'S AND OTHER RELIGIONS

Valentine is prohibited many religion scholars including Hinduism, Islam (major) e.c.t For some reasons, Major of them are as follow

• Valentine is a Christianity festival, So it's prohibited. As in many religions (Including Islam) celebrating other religions religious days is prohibited because it can lead upto the misconception that the other's religion is true and many people can consider the other religion's festival a part of their religion.
• Valentine can lead young religious people to the path of sin, So it's prohibited.
• Third and the most important, It can lead to parties (inc all kind of prohibted stuff like drinking), So they can do things that are against the society, Law and religion.
• Islam and many other religions are against sex before marriage, This day can lead upto sex between people, As the day has an erotic feel in it, So once again it's downright prohibited.

MY OPINION ON VALENTINE'S DAY

As being a Muslim, I don't believe in this story and I'm against the origins of this day but If we consider this day as Global festival with no regard to Saint Valentine and only stay only concerned with Love then........

I think there is nothing wrong with this day, As it's (Valentine Day) a gratitude of Love. With time Valentine Day'sapplication has quite increased. In the past it was only limited to the Lovers, Now I've seen people express their love to a lot of people on this day including friends and special people in life. This day has become a symbol of love as compared to symbol of lovers, So......

I'm OK with it as far as it's for Love but to be honest, More then 80% of young people have made a sport from this day and companies are earning millions because of this sport. Simply it's a flirting day and quite few people have honesty to love. I have seen tons and tons and tons of people lying to their Boyfriends/Girlfriends on this day in order to get lucky, In my opinion which is a shameful and disgusting thing. Because in my opinion Love is a feeling and it's not only based on eroticism, The lust and hunger of young people I see on valentine's day is disgusting to me. That's why I never be a part of this day, As I don't like masking myself in order to get lucky, I believe in true Love not this thing known as Love nowadays (For most of People), Which is mostly based on acquiring the other person physically and then leaving them, When your work is Done.

OUTRO

I know I did something wrong by writing this blog, I'm feeling it in my guts. I just wish the outcome of this blog is not as fearsome as I'm worrying it to be.

Good Bye, Have Fun and Enjoy Valentine's Day, Just remember stay loyal to your loved ones and always try them to keep Happy :)

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Now after ending the blog There is something Which I wanna say but I wasn't sure where to put it in the blog, So Just added this after ending the blog. Originally I intended to make a Blog with my history with girls and my socialism and The Valentine's Day and I was planning this blog for a while but Unfortunately a few days ago, I searched the origins of Valentine and then I read more, more and more. People's opinions and their beliefs and in the and I was quite confused and then I thought of making this blog like the way it is, I hope you like and don't criticize it as much as I'm afraid.