Valentines Day

The origin of Valentine’s Day comes from a back in the third century in Rome. This is because Emperor Claudius II thought that single soldiers were better than married solider who had a wife and kids. He didn’t allow marriage for young men. This caused St. Valentine a temple priest helped Christian couples get married which was illegal during this time and when Claudius II found out he ordered St. Valentine to be beaten and killed. As a result he was arrested and dragged to the perfect of Rome who allowed for him to be beaten by clubs and to then have his head cut off. Another story is that St. Valentine may have been killed as a result of attempting to help Christians escape the harsh Roman Prisons where they would be beaten and tortured. Another legend claims that a man by the name of Valentine was imprisoned and sent a “Valentine” letter to young girl whom he feel in love with, who may have been his jailors daughter who visited him while he was imprisoned. It is said that before he was executed he wrote a letter to here that was signed with the iconic commonly used phrase “From your valentine”. Others also believe Valentine’s Day is celebrated in the middle of February to Christianize the pagan celebration of Lupercalia. The bones of Saint. Valentine are in White friar Street Church, Dublin. Valentine’s Day greetings go as far back to the middle ages they did not begin to appear until after the 1400s. The oldest known valentine letter is a poem written in 1451 by Charles, Duke of Orleans to his Wife while he was imprisoned in the Tower of London following his capture at the Battle of Agincourt. It is also later believed that King Henry V hired a writer named John Lydgate to create a Valentine note for Catherine of Valois.