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As Valentine’s Day hits us as quickly as Cupid’s arrow, February 14th is not only a reminder of our feelings towards others; the sickly sweet exterior has a dark undertone of sympathy, heroism and sacrifice from its Roman origins.
Like all good romance stories, Valentine’s Day is shrouded in mystery as to how or why it began.
Aristotle once said: “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” While named after St Valentine, legend has it that two clerics called Valentine were martyred on February 14th during the 3rd Century resulting in the so-called St Valentine’s Day.
Whether they are two separate people or the same person remains unclear. But stories believe in different origins of Valentine.
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One tale tells of a Roman priest who continued to marry young lovers in secret despite the ban by Emperor Claudius II. With the Roman Empire diminishing, Claudius needed a strong army and decided single men made better soldiers, their married counterparts becoming emotionally weak and too attached to their loved ones. After getting caught offering clandestine ceremonies, Valentine was imprisoned and sentenced to death for defying the Emperor.
Another story believes that Valentine was said to have helped his jailor, Asterius, restore the sight of his blind daughter through his faith. Inevitably, he fell in love with the daughter and is said to have sent her a
is in the air
Love it or loathe it, there is no hiding from the festival of lovers that is soon to arrive.
pre-execution greeting, ended– from your Valentine.
A third story notes Valentine as being killed for helping Christians escape from Roman prisons. Although each a differing story of love and loss, the connecting thread is the same throughout. Valentine was martyred not for his romantic love, but for his religious love of Christianity and refusal to denounce his religion. By the 5th Century, Christianity was rising in Europe. Pope Gelasius had outlawed the pagan festival of Lupercalia deeming its drunken debauchery and nudity un-Christian. A fertility festival dedicated to Faunus, the Roman god of agriculture, and the first sons of Rome, Romulus and Remus, Lupercalia was celebrated from 13th to 15th February where priests would sacrifice a goat and slap women with its blood- soaked hides in order to bring fertility for the year.
Women would then place their names in an urn in the hope of being picked out by a bachelor, with the couple fatefully marrying. Talk about speed dating. Fed up of these alcohol- soaked pagan rituals, Gelasius declared it Valentine’s Day on the 14th as a way to commemorate the Saint’s heroic efforts. It wasn’t until much later that romance came along. By the Middle Ages, the French and English had decided that February 14th was the start of bird mating season, underpinned by Chaucer’s poem The Parlement of Foules where he first referenced the day as an occasion for lovers.
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