Valentine Day History | Why celebrate Valentine’s Day?

Valentine Day History: 🖤 Love has no language, it is a feeling. Although it is not necessary to express love that you have to wait for a special day, but still all the loving couples around the world eagerly wait for Valentine’s Day . Loving couples celebrate this day in their own styles. All over the world every year on 14th February all couples celebrate Valentine’s Day .

Have you ever wondered why Valentine Day is celebrated only on February 14 ? Is there any story behind this too? Yes, there is a story behind Valentine’s Day celebrated every year on February 14 and it also has its own history. Why do we celebrate Valentine’s Day today? And what is the history of Valentine day? Will inform everyone. To be born in History of Valentine Day in Hindi , you have to stick with the article.

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Why celebrate Valentine’s Day?

There is definitely some event behind the celebration of every festival. Be it the festivals of India or the festivals celebrated all over the world, they all have some or the other true event or belief. Valentine’s Day is celebrate every year on 14th of February. It would not be bad to call February the month of love. 

There are many opinions behind why Valentine’s Day is celebrated, there is no exact information available. But a story or incident related to Valentine’s Day is quite famous, which is related to the Roman Empire. This day is celebrated in the memory of Christian Martyr Valentine. It is a traditional day celebrated in most English civilization countries abroad in which lovers express their love to each other.

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Key Highlight of Valentine Day History

article name	Valentine Day
Another name for Valentine’s Day	saint valentine’s day
Valentine’s Day is celebrated	in almost all the countries of the world
Date of Valentine’s Day	February 14 every year
Symbol of the Modern Valentine	heart-shaped motif, dove-winged cupid
valentines are done	lover and girlfriend give gifts to each other, date
Valentine is considered	In memory of Saint Valentine
year	2023

What is the history of Valentine’s Day?

Do you know that valentine day is named after a person whose name was Valentine. Who was Valentine and why is Valentine’s Day celebrated in his memory? There is a story behind them. 

Actually Valentine was hanged on the day of 14 February itself, Valentine Day is celebrated in his memory. The beginning of the story behind celebrating this day of love ie Valentine’s Day was not full of love. This story begins in the third century of the Roman Empire. 

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This story is related to an evil king of Rome and a kind Saint Valentine. Once upon a time there was a tyrannical king known as Claudius in Rome around the third century.

Proclamation of Rome King Claudius

King Claudius Gothicus II of Rome believed that in place of a married soldier for war, a single i.e. unmarried bachelor soldier could become more appropriate and effective. The king believed that the attention of a married soldier is always engaged in the concern of the family and the soldier is not able to pay full attention during the war. For these reasons, King Claudius announced in the state that after today no soldier will marry, if he does so, he will be punished for it.

The soldiers were saddened by the announcement of the king.

All the soldiers were deeply saddened by this decision of King Claudius . This decision was wrong for all those soldiers who wanted to marry. But no soldier had the courage to stand against the king. And all the soldiers had to accept this decision compulsorily.

At the same time there used to be a saint in the room who was known for his kindness. 

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Saint Valentine did not like this decision of the king. After which Saint Valentine worked to secretly marry many young soldiers from King Claudius . Any soldier in the state who wanted to marry his girlfriend would take the help of saint valentine and valentine would secretly get those soldiers married. In this way Saint Valentine got many soldiers married secretly.

Valentine’s meeting with the jailer Asterius

Valentine had got many soldiers married secretly. But a time came when King Claudius came to know about this work of Saint Valentine. King Claudius sentenced Saint Valentine to death for his act and put him in prison. While in prison, one day a jailer named Asteriu s came to Saint Valentine.

Saint Valentine had a divine power which he used to cure the diseases of the people. When Jailor Asterius came to know about this, he went to Valentine, in fact Asterius had a daughter who was blind and wanted help from Asterius Valentine. Valentine was a kind saint who cured the blind daughter of the jailer Asterius with his powers.

Valentine’s day friendship and love with the daughter of Asterius

Valentine and the daughter of the jailer Asterius had now developed a good friendship. Gradually this friendship turned into love and both of them did not know when they fell in love with each other. The daughter of Asterius was shocked to think that the date of Valentine’s death was approaching. At last the moment came when Saint Valentine was to be hanged. Saint Valentine was hanged on 14 February.

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Before his death, Saint Valentine asked the jailer for a pen and paper and on it he wrote a goodbye message for the jailer Asterius ‘s daughter. At the end of this message, Valentine had written “your valentine” . This is the word which is remembered by all the love birds today.

This is Valentine week

1. Rose day
2. propose day
3. chocolate day
4. teddy day
5. promise day
6. hug day
7. kiss day

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