What you didn’t know about Valentine’s Day

February 14, 2004 | Category: blog, old website posts

It would not be a good celebration of Valentine’s Day if we do not even know how this day is actually started as well as the background.

  • February 14, 270 A.D. : Roman Emperor Claudius II, dubbed “Claudius the Cruel,” beheaded a priest named Valentine for performing marriage ceremonies. Claudius II had outlawed marriages when Roman men began refusing to go to war in order to stay with their wives.
  • Another Roman martyr named Valentine was jailed and passed the time by writing love letters to his captor’s daughter signed “your Valentine.”
  • During the Middle Ages, Europeans believed that birds chose their mates each year on February 14. Legend has it that Europeans began to emulate the ornithological practice.
  • In the 17th century, it’s believed that lovers began exchanging mementos on Saint Valentine’s Day, perhaps heeding the words of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet:”.”Sweets to the sweet.”
  • Legend has it that the first valentine was sent by St. Valentine himself on the eve of his execution for refusing to denounce Christianity. Signed “from your Valentine,” it was a note of appreciation to his jailer’s daughter, who had brought him food and delivered messages.

This Natalie Dee is funny.

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