Origins of Valentine's Day:
Valentine's Day celebrations including a feast to the Roman pagan (idolaters), in which idolatry is the religion of them since more than 17 centuries ago. Valentine celebration is an expression in the pagan religion of the Roman god of love and respect them.
Valentine's Day celebration has historical roots in the form of several stories down through the generations on the Romans and the Christians their heirs. The most famous story about its origins is that the Romans used to believe that Romulus (founder of Rome) suckled by a she-wolf, the wolf gave him physical strength and intelligence of the mind. The Romans commemorate this event in mid-February each year with a magnificent memorial. Among the rituals are slaughtering a dog and a goat, then dilumurkan blood to the two young men a strong physique. Then they washed the blood with milk. After the big parade was started by two young men in front of the entourage. Both carry two pieces of leather that they use to stain everything they come across. The Roman women to spread deliberately overlooking it gladly, because it believes they will be blessed with fertility and easy delivery.
History of Valentine's Day I:
According to the chronicle of ancient Athenian calendar, the period between mid-January to mid February is the month Gamelion, which is dedicated to the sacred marriage god Zeus and Hera. You know the god Zeus? hercules's father-nye.
In ancient Rome, February 15th is the feast of Lupercalia, a celebration of Lupercus, the god of fertility, which represented half-naked and dressed in goat skins. As a purification ritual, the priests of Lupercus meyembahkan sacrifice goats to the gods and then after drinking wine, they'll run around the streets of Rome holding pieces of sheepskin and touching anyone they met on the street. Some historians say this as one reason for the embryo of Valentine's Day.
History of Valentine's Day II:
According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, the name of Valentine was thought to be referring to the three martyrs or saints (holy man) who is different is the following:
* Priest in Rome
* Bishop Interamna (modern Terni)
* Martyr in the Roman province of Africa.
The relationship between the three martyrs was the feast of love (Valentine) is unclear. Even Pope Gelasius I in 496 years, stating that in fact nothing is known about these martyrs, but today set February 14 as the feast of St. Valentine warning. Some say that Pope Gelasius I deliberately set it to outperform the feast of Lupercalia which was celebrated on February 15.
Skeletal remains unearthed from the tomb of Saint Hyppolytus, identified as a corpse St. Valentinus. Then placed in a coffin of gold and sent to the church Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church in Dublin, Ireland. The body has been given to them by Pope Gregory XVI in 1836. Many tourists are now a pilgrimage to this church on Valentine's Day (February 14), where the coffin of the gold being paraded in a procession and brought to a high altar. On that day carried a special Mass was held and presented to the young people and those who are in a relationship of love.
Feast day was removed from the ecclesiastical calendar in 1969 as part of a broader effort to remove the saints that its origin is unclear, dubious and just based on the legend. But this feast is still celebrated in certain parishes.
History of Valentine's Day III:
The first record of association of the feast of St. Valentine with romantic love is in the 14th century in England and France, where it is believed that February 14 is the day when a bird looking for a partner for mating. This belief is written on the work of writer named Geoffrey Chaucer's Middle English. He wrote in the Parlement of Foules story (Conversation Birds) that:
In the time it was common for lovers to exchange notes on Valentine's Day and Valentine's call them partners. A Valentine card from the 14th century is said to be part of the manuscript collections of the British Library in London. Chances are many legends about St. Valentine were created in this era. Some of them told me that:
* The evening before St. Valentine was going to die as a martyr (martyr), he has written a small declaration of love he gave to the prison warden is written "From Valentinusmu".
* When the ban on marriages of Roman soldiers by the Emperor Claudius II, St. Valentine secretly helped marry them secretly.
In most versions of these legends, February 14 linked to miscarriage as a martyr.
History of Valentines Day IV:
The story of St. Valentine
Valentine was a priest living in Rome in the third century. He lived in the kingdom which was led by Emperor Claudius notoriety. He hated the emperor. But unfortunately, this desire is not supported. The men are reluctant to engage in warfare. Because they do not want to leave her family and lovers. This made Claudius furious, he immediately ordered officials to conduct a crazy idea. Claudius thought that if men do not marry, they would gladly join the military. Then Claudius forbade the marriage. Young couples when it considers this decision was so unreasonable. St. hence. Valentine refused to carry it out.
St. Valentine continue to perform his duties as pastor, that married couples are in love even in secret. This action was eventually known by the emperors who immediately gave him a warning, but he ignored and remain blessed the marriage in a small chapel lit only by candles.
Until one night, he caught bless one partner. The couple managed to escape, but the unfortunate St. Valentine was caught. He was imprisoned and sentenced to death by beheading. Instead of being insulted by people, St. Valentine even visited by many people who support that action. They threw flowers and messages containing support in windows prison where he was detained.
One of those who believe in that love is the daughter of the prison guards themselves. The father allowed his daughter to visit St. Valentine's Day. Not infrequently they talked for a long time. The girl was rekindled the spirit of the preacher. He agrees that the St. Valentine has done the right thing right eh benul alias.
On the day when he was beheaded beheaded alias, which is dated February 14 do not know what year, St. Valentine took time to write a message to her jailer's daughter before, she writes: With Love from Valentinemu.
The message was later changed everything. Now every February 14, people around the world celebrate it as love. People who celebrate this day to remember St. Valentine as a warrior of love, while the emperor Claudius is remembered as someone who tried to get rid of love.
Conclusion:
Of all the origin or history of the above can be concluded that the "valentine day has no apparent background at all," both of story and time of occurrence (see above centuries of history despite the name the same figure). How do you think?
