The history of valentines' day
Every 14 February people send each others flowers,chocolates and gifts specially between the loved ones. Are you one of them? do you know what valentine means or what what happened for this 14 February to be remembered?
Well, the origin of Valentine's day trace back to the ancient of Roman celebration of Lupercalia. held on February 15, Lupercalia honored the gods Lupercus and Faunus, as well as the legendary founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus.In addition to a bountiful feast, Lupercalia festivities are purposed to have included the pairing of young women and men. Men would draw women's names from a box and each couple would be paired until next year's celebration.
While this pairing of couple set the tone for today's holiday it wasn't called valentine's Day until priest called valentine came along. Valentine a romantic at heart, disobeyed Emperor Claudius II's decree that soldiers remain bachelors. Claudius handed down this decree believing that soldiers would be distracted and unable to concentrate on fighting if they were married or engaged. Valentine defied the emperor and secretly performed marriage ceremonies. as a result of his defiance, Valentine was put to death on February 14.
After Valentine's death, he was named a saint. As Christianity spread through Rome, the priest moved Lupercalia from February 15 to February 14 and renamed it ST.Valentine's Day to honor Saint Valentine. What's Cupid Go to do with it? According to Roman mythology, Cupid was the son of Venus, the goddess of love and beauty. Cupid was known to cause people fall in love by shooting them with the magical arrows. But Cupid didn't just cause others to fall in love; he himself fell deeply in love. As legend has it, Cupid fell in love with a mortal maiden named Psyche. Cupid Married Psyche but Venus jealous of Psyche's beauty, forbade her daughter-in-law to look at Cupid. Psyche of course couldn't resist temptation and sneaked a peek at her handsome husband.
As a punishment,Venus demanded that she performed three hard tasks, the last of which caused Psyche's death. Cupid brought Psyche back to life and the gods, moved their love, granted Psyche immorality.Cupid thus represents the the heard and Psyche the (struggles of the )human soul.http://www.history.com/topics/valentines-day/history-of-valentines-day.
Hope you learnt a thing or two, wishing you all a happy valentine and lots of love.
