Thursday, February 08, 2007

Valentine's Day is around the corner!

I thought it would be educational and interesting to share with everyone how Valentine's Day came about.

According to Menstuff.com, the history of Valentine's Day can be traced back to the ancient Roman celebration of Lupercalia held on 15 February. During the festival to honour the gods, young men would draw names of young women from a box and each couple would be paired to stay together throughout the festival till the next celebration.

Emperor Claudius II of Rome believed that young men should stay as bachelors to stay concentrated on fighting for their country. At that time, he had difficulties recruiting young men as soldiers and cancelled all forms of engagement and weddings. Without his knowledge, St. Valentine, a Roman priest defied the Emperor and secretly continued to wed couples and hold wedding ceremonies. Unfortunately, he was caught and put to death on the 14 February. After his death, he was named a saint. As Christianity spread through Rome, the priests moved Lupercalia from 15 February to 14 February and renamed it St. Valentine's Day to honour him.

Now that we all know how Valentine's Day came about, what will you be doing on this day with your other half or friends to honour St Valentine? As for me, my creative juices are still at work. I've bought all the possible gifts - ties, shirts, pants, accessories, you name it.

Maybe it's time to do something different to honour the real significance of Valentine's Day this year...

1 Comments:

Blogger Sean Carter said...

Valentines Day is just round the corner and it's one of the most popular celebrations all around the world...and thanks for posting a brief history on that...well you can also heck out my blog on Valentines Day for some more info and fun for Valentines Day!!!!

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