History of valentines day
All the young and old people in the world wait for the February fourteenth with eagerness to gift their beloved ones. They enjoy the day romantically and celebrate the day with their loving partners. In fact, the story of the priest Valentine is very tragic. It is very important to know about the history of the valentine day while people celebrate the valentine day.
About Father Valentine:
Different styled versions of St. Valentine are available. Saint Valentine lived during the period of Roman Emperor Claudius II, during the period about 270 AD. He was servicing as a priest in a church near Rome. He was very kind and affectionate and he was preaching about the way of real life and how to love others. During the regime of the Roman Emperor Claudius II, the Kingdom became larger and larger and the king felt it very difficult to maintain his kingdom. Number of enemies increased at the border of his kingdom. Gauls, Slavs, Huns, Turks and Mongolians were looking for the opportunities and they were giving pressure to the Roman Emperor. Because of the continuous wars, the price for everything went up rapidly, and the King had no other options except increasing all the taxes and cut down all the facilities that were provided by the Kingdom. Many people had no food and shelter and the kingdom almost came to a standstill.
The Emperor thought that the army should be considerably increased to cope up with the war situation. The Emperor was in the view that just because of the married soldiers the team was very weak and he felt that the married soldiers were not brave enough to fight against the determined enemies. Then, he decided that there should be no marriages and he immediately passed orders that there should be no marriages. All the people of the Roman Empire were shock of the order of the Emperor but they had no other alternates. Saint Valentine was against that decision, and became worried of the orders of the Emperor. Since he was in the church and his duty was to conduct sacred marriages in his church, he did not want to stop that auspicious act of conducting weddings. He continued to help the lovers to get their weddings and he was doing the weddings in secret places.
Saint Valentine believed that the real love alone could save the world and not the wars. He was such a believer of God that he had miraculous powers with him. But Saint Valentine was not at all interested to show his extraordinary powers to others. At the same, he was aware that his future would be collapsed if he was caught and he never cared for his future. He had dedicated his entire life for the cause of real love. The Emperor came to know of that he ordered for the arrest of Saint Valentine. Soldiers caught him and handed over to the Emperor. The Emperor had a talk with Saint Valentine and The Emperor was very much pleased with the approach of Saint Valentine and the king wanted to save him for his religion. The King requested Saint Valentine to change his religion and join the Roman God?s religion so that his execution would be cancelled. But, Saint Valentine was not at all interested in that offer to save his life and refused to join any other religions. At last, Saint Valentine was jailed.
Even when Saint Valentine was in jail, he did not change his attitudes and qualities. Sacred persons never change their qualities. The jailor Asterius became a friend of Saint Valentine. He was very much attracted by the way he lived in the jail. He had a daughter, who was blind. Asterius requested Saint Valentine to cure his daughter and provide her with sight. Immediately, Saint Valentine prayed for her and she go back her sight miraculously. She became one of the admirers of Saint Valentine and she offered her love to Saint Valentine, who gracefully accepted since he knew that admiring was beyond respect, love and affection. He was very much disturbed by the act of Romans, who were ill treating the Christians in the jail. In fact, many of them were innocents and were severely beaten and cruelly and mercilessly killed. Saint Valentine tried his best to save the Christians and he was killed during his attempt to save Christians. Some other versions say that he was executed on February twenty fourth of 270 AD. The first real love and affectionate letter was written by himself during his last days in the jail. While he was about to be executed, he requested for a pen and a paper, which were provided. Then, he wrote the letter to the daughter of the jailor, starting with ?From Your Valentine?. Thus, Saint Valentine sacrificed his entire life to the real love. He showed what the real love was.
At first, the Valentine day celebration started with the Romans. Young Romans wrote letters, gifted flowers, spent time with their admired loving partners. After sometime, it spread all over Europe and the United States of America and other parts of the world.
Theme behind Valentine day:
Saint Valentine was fond of true love and affection. He lived with love, he lived for love and he died for love. He could have saved his life, if he would have converted to Roman religion. Since he loved his religion so much, he was not interested even saving his life. He was such a deep devotee and lover of his religion. People, who are celebrating the Valentine day, should remember the message of Saint Valentine that everyone should love others. He showed the world that true love is divine and it is beyond everything.
Conclusion:
When people want to be happy, they should try to help others to be happy. This article is completely dedicated to the true lover of love Saint Valentine.
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