Hey everyone
I hope you all had a very special Valentines Day yesterday and either celebrated with your significant other or even just spent a nice afternoon with your families.
The history of this very romantic holiday was not always sunshine and rainbows. A very very long time ago there was a guy named Emperor Claudius 11 and he believed that young men would make better soldiers if they were not married because then they would have nothing tying them down. Claudius then decided to make it a rule that young lovers were not allowed to marry each other.
After Saint Valentine heard about this new law he was not very happy about it and so he decided to start marrying young people privately behind Claudius’s back. When Claudius found out about these secret marriages, he had Saint Valentine killed for going against his law. Before Claudius had him killed he first put Saint Valentine away to prison… The popular signature of saying “from your valentine” was invented when Saint Valentine used to secretly send love letters to the women that he loved and he signed them “from your valentine” and after that the trend had started
Some people say that the reason why Valentines Day is in the middle of the month is to commemorate the anniversary of Saint Valentines death.
When I learnt this history I was actually really surprised at how dark it was in the beginning and then I read about what Saint Valentine did and it made me appreciate Valentines Day so much more, because I thought of the sacrifice he made to bring together two people who love each other and secretly marry them to make them happy.
The lesson that has been learnt here is that you must cherish the person that you are in a relationship with, because at the end of he day, there are some people who don’t get to experience love.
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