History about Valentines Day and St Valentine

[Hathor The Mad]

St. Valentine was a early Christian during the reign of Emperor Claudius II. He lived when Christians were still persecuted. The story goes he sent Parchment hearts to fellow Christians locked up in prison and preformed secret wedding because the emperor would not allow his soldiers to marry. He was arrested and put to death.(On Feb 14th as its told.)  

[Br1ttana]

Hmm, I never heard that before. Very interesting. ^_^ Thank you for sharing. <3 : D  

[faithful quenga]

God is my strength... "Psalms 28:7"

I did a little look online and that seems to be a myth.

Wikipedia - Valentine's Day

...God is my joy "Psalms 96:11-13"

 

[Hathor The Mad]

faithful quenga

God is my strength... "Psalms 28:7"

I did a little look online and that seems to be a myth.

Wikipedia - Valentine's Day

...God is my joy "Psalms 96:11-13"

Well the details are not for sure but he was a roman christian. We just didn't know what he really did or who he was. Its assumed he was a priest since he preformed weddings.  

[faithful quenga]

God is my strength... "Psalms 28:7"

I do not dispute the validity of his being a Christian.

""Since Legenda Aurea still provided 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.

There is an additional modern embellishment to The Golden Legend, provided by American Greetings to History.com, and widely repeated despite having no historical basis whatsoever. On the evening before Valentine was to be executed, he would have written the first "valentine" card 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.""

Myth probably wasn't the appropriate word, it's just that through reading more of the history of it, shows that there is no truth to it since what the truth was, was stretched out to make it sound better as I underlined. There is no truth in it if was added on with no factual evidence. It sounds nice but I don't believe it.

...God is my joy "Psalms 96:11-13"

 

[emorhconom esor]

It was once believed that birds would breed and lay eggs on the 14th  

[Expilliarmus]

Ahhh. Now I know why Feb 14.. Hoho.  

[Hathor The Mad]

Either way I like it as a holiday of love and friendship! mrgreen

I got a book on it from my Library. They always have displays for Holidays.