Valentine’s Day !!!

Well Two days to go for What is Most popularly known as Valentine's DAY,or Lover's Day...But Do you Know..

From WHERE DID Valentine’s Day come from?

You might suppose school teachers and educators would know. But do they? How many of us were ever taught the real origin of Valentine's Day? – were we ever told in school WHY we should observe the custom of exchanging valentines?

Educators : Does they Really Know???

Teachers are all too often silent about the origin of the customs they are forced to teach in today's schools! If they were to speak out, many would lose their jobs!

Isn't it time we examined why People encourage their children to celebrate Valentine’s Day…

Today, candy makers unload tons of heart-shaped red boxes for February 14, while millions of the younger set are annually exchanging valentines. Florists consider February 14 -- Valentine's Day -- as one of their best business days. And young lovers pair off -- at least for a dance or two -- at balls and Discotheques.

Why? Where did these customs originate? Where do we find any such practices? How did we come to inherit these customs?

Who was St. Valentine and Why this Custom of Valentine day ???

--> According to one legend, centuries before Christ, the Romans celebrated February 15 and the evening of February 14 as an idolatrous and sensuous festival in honor of Lupercus, the "hunter of wolves"…

The Romans called the festival the "Lupercalia". The custom of exchanging valentines and all the other traditions in honor of Lupercus -- the deified hero-hunter of Rome -- was also linked anciently with the practice of teen-agers "going steady." It usually led to fornication. Today, the custom of "going steady" is thought very modern. It isn't!!!

It is merely a rebirth of an old custom handed down from the Roman festival of the Lupercalia, celebrated in the month of February, when names of young women were put into a box and drawn out by men as chance directed. Somewhat opposite to What we people call it as “Swayambar”,Where a Women chooses a men..!!! :D

--> One legend contends that Valentine was a priest who served during the third century in Rome. When Emperor Claudius II decided that single men made better soldiers than those with wives and families, he outlawed marriage for young men -- his crop of potential soldiers.

Valentine, realizing the injustice of the decree, defied Claudius and continued to perform marriages for young lovers in secret. When Valentine's actions were discovered, Claudius ordered that he be put to death.

--> In One of the legend,it is also reveal that Valentine actually sent the first 'valentine' greeting himself. While in prison, it is believed that Valentine fell in love with a young girl -- who may have been his jailor's daughter -- who visited him during his confinement. Before his death, it is alleged that he wrote her a letter, which he signed 'From your Valentine,' an expression that is still in use today…: D

Today, the Catholic Church recognizes at least three different saints named Valentine or Valentinus, all of whom were martyred…GOD KNOWS Them!!!

But Why???

Although the truth behind the Valentine legends is murky, the stories certainly emphasize his appeal as a sympathetic, heroic, and, most importantly, romantic figure.

Yet the point is…

Why do little children and young people still cut out hearts and send them on a day in honor of St. Valentine?

why do we associate HEARTS on a day in honor of St. Valentine, whom we actually don’t know???

Why?

Well,Now my mind has stop working and is busy in Trying to know what this Analogy is...

Hence...