Why is valentines day a day of love?
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saint valentine was a roman martyred for not giving up christianity and was killed on february 14th 269 A.D so i like to think it baecame a day of loved because he was willing to die for something he loved which to me is a big part of what love is supposed to be about.
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the chance to have a special day to tell your love ones how much they mean to you...\nmost people dont tell their love ones how important they are and how their presence makes a difference in their life...and vday is just the perfect occasssion to do that...
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Happy valentines Day.
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I believe that Valentines Day is, and should remain, for both sexes. It is a day that represents your love for eachother, one special day that was meant in celebration of ONLY eachother. Not just female, or just male.  I think that the day has become more of a female obsession because it is the one day that represents what they wish EVERYDAY could be like.  Its a day about what generally is most important to them, and that would be their man. We can only hope that our men will parallel our feelings everyday about how much they love us, but our day does come once a year. We will always love our men everyday, but sometimes we are, and you are so busy that its hard to devote every minute to telling eachother how we feel, or showing them.  I believe that Valentines day is the one exception, it is a day reserved for both of us to SHARE our love.\n\nAnd no offense to you, but males need more help buying gifts than women do.  Those advertisements were made BY women FOR men.  We're only reminding you to not forget. Plus women will remember to think ahead and get gifts maybe even a month before the big day.  We know you men wait until the last minute. Plus, if its not presents, theres always one sure way to please a man.  Women, unfortunately need more reassurance of your love, and most women are extremely materialistic.   \nIf your woman is not, get out your paper and glue stick, a paper card drwawn and written by you will mean 100 times more, and itll save you money.  But make sure it doesnt look like you forgot and had to throw something together last minute, spend at least a good half hour on it.
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You ask a loaded question and there is no one answer.\nLove is holding hands after being to together for hundreds of years. love is laughter. love is sharing. love is still being able to tickle each other after many years. Love is supportive, Love is resisting the temptation of the "lady" down the block. Love is not placing blame when no child is born out of the union. Love is cheering up your mate when sadness lurks by. Love is putting up with the mother-in -law just because. Love is, his caress. love is, his kiss on your neck. love is the curling of toes. Love is tender\n\n    LOVE DOES NOT HURT.
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Valentine's Day occurs annually on Februay 14. Modern day customs include sending greeting cards known as valentines to loved ones. School rooms are often decorated with lace and paper hearts. Gifts of candy and flowers are also common at this time.\n\nThe origins of Valentine's Day are uncertain. Many experts believe that it originated with Lupercalia, a Roman celebration honoring the wolves Romulus and Remus. During this festival, young men struck women with a goatskin hide called a februa. Receiving the blows was thought to make women more fertile and to ease childbirth. At Lupercalia, the names of all the young women in the city were placed in a box. Young men drew a name from the box and the couple would be paired until the next Lupercalia. Lupercalia was replaced with Valentine's Day by Christians.\n\nOthers trace Valentine's Day back to the rule of the Roman emperor Claudius II. In the 200's C. E., Claudius become frustrated when he had trouble recruiting soldiers into his army. Believing that the young men did not want to leave their wives and children, Claudius banned all marriages of single young men. However, a priest named Valentine disobeyed Claudius and performed secret marriages. Claudius found out about the marriages and sentenced Valentine to prison until his death on February 14, 270 C. E.\n\nMany historians believe the custom of sending poetic verse on this day originated with the capture of Charles, Duke of Orleans, during the Battle of Agincourt. From his prison cell in the Tower of London, Charles sent his wife a rhyming love letter.\n\nValentine cards became popular in Great Britain in the nineteenth century. Noted artist Kate Greenaway created cards which featured joyful children and beautiful gardens. Esther Howland was one of the first Valentine card manufacturers in the United States. Inspired by a British card, she began production in 1847. Her cards featured lace and paper flowers and leaves. Other card manufacturers emphasized Cupid, the pudgy, winged son of Venus, the goddess of love. In Roman lore, Cupid is known as Eros, the son of Aphrodite.
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There are a few reasons.  Most often, it is due to the fact that they don't have what they wish they had on Valentine's Day.  It is possible that not enough of thier friends or family may be sending them "love" on Valentine's Day. Or they are sad because they think that Valentine's Day is about sharing the day with a significant other (boyfriend, girlfriend, fiance, husband, wife...), and they either don't have one or don't have one who shows enough appreciation on this day.\n\nOn the other hand, some people don't like Valentine's Day because it is another conspiracy made my candy and flower companies to take our money.  They may believe that love should be shown all the time, rather than held to one specific day.  And, the love that is shown when it isn't expected may seem even more special to them than if people are showing it because they are supposed to and they are reminded to.
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YES! VALENTINE'S DAY IS NOT ONLY FOR LOVERS BUT EVEN FOR UR FRIENDS U CAN BE MY FRIEND.
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valentine's day came from St. Valentine. He is a roman priest in nearly 600-700 a.d. In his time, roman should praise their roman god and godess, but valentine worship Chrsit, our God. That's why the emperor of that time decided to persecute Valentine. While he was in the jail, waiting for his persecution, Valentine wrote a letter for his love ones. He was persecuted and died february 14. \n\nEvery year, his family and friends celebrate his death by sharing their love to each other. When valentine became a saint. The tradition of his family spread all over the world. Thats how valentine's day originatred.
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Everyday is a good day to show Love, so a simple gesture like a heart shaped candy/chocolate, and a note/card...maybe dinner...in or out it depends on what would be more appreciated by your partner.  Happy Valentines Day Everyone!
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Nothing, because valentines day is a lame assed holiday created to make money for the greeting card/chocolate industry and make people think they're entitled to be treated extra special.  If he wants to impress me he'd do something nice for me on a random day when society didn't tell him he HAD to.  ;)
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Valentine's day is the one time of year that everyone can be openly affectionate.\nPeople who have absolutely no significant other can get quite depressed when a day comes around that's solely revolved around love and affection.\nNatural reaction.
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yes, because love gives hope, freedom, peace, care.. and time.. love can be a reason why people wanted to be good and worth for the love.. love can set us free form past and face the future and gain back the goodness in our heart.. love can   has its own miracle where love knows nothing but its heartbeat..
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Roman Roots\nThe history of Valentine's Day is obscure, and further clouded by various fanciful legends. The holiday's roots are in the ancient Roman festival of Lupercalia, a fertility celebration commemorated annually on February 15. Pope Gelasius I recast this pagan festival as a Christian feast day circa 496, declaring February 14 to be St. Valentine's Day.\n\nValentines Galore\nWhich St. Valentine this early pope intended to honor remains a mystery: according to the Catholic Encyclopedia, there were at least three early Christian saints by that name. One was a priest in Rome, another a bishop in Terni, and of a third St. Valentine almost nothing is known except that he met his end in Africa. Rather astonishingly, all three Valentines were said to have been martyred on Feb. 14.\n\nMost scholars believe that the St. Valentine of the holiday was a priest who attracted the disfavor of Roman emperor Claudius II around 270. At this stage, the factual ends and the mythic begins. According to one legend, Claudius II had prohibited marriage for young men, claiming that bachelors made better soldiers. Valentine continued to secretly perform marriage ceremonies but was eventually apprehended by the Romans and put to death. Another legend has it that Valentine, imprisoned by Claudius, fell in love with the daughter of his jailer. Before he was executed, he allegedly sent her a letter signed "from your Valentine." Probably the most plausible story surrounding St. Valentine is one not focused on Eros (passionate love) but on agape (Christian love): he was martyred for refusing to renounce his religion.\n\nIn 1969, the Catholic Church revised its liturgical calendar, removing the feast days of saints whose historical origins were questionable. St. Valentine was one of the casualties.\n\nChaucer's Love Birds\nIt was not until the 14th century that this Christian feast day became definitively associated with love. According to UCLA medieval scholar Henry Ansgar Kelly, author of Chaucer and the Cult of Saint Valentine, it was Chaucer who first linked St. Valentine's Day with romance.\n\nIn 1381, Chaucer composed a poem in honor of the engagement between England's Richard II and Anne of Bohemia. As was the poetic tradition, Chaucer associated the occasion with a feast day. In "The Parliament of Fowls," the royal engagement, the mating season of birds, and St. Valentine's Day are linked:\n\nFor this was on St. Valentine's Day, \nWhen every fowl cometh there to choose his mate.\n\nTradition of Valentine's Cards\n Over the centuries, the holiday evolved, and by the 18th century, gift-giving and exchanging hand-made cards on Valentine's Day had become common in England. Hand-made valentine cards made of lace, ribbons, and featuring cupids and hearts eventually spread to the American colonies. The tradition of Valentine's cards did not become widespread in the United States, however, until the 1850s, when Esther A. Howland, a Mount Holyoke graduate and native of Worcester, Mass., began mass-producing them. Today, of course, the holiday has become a booming commercial success. According to the Greeting Card Association, 25% of all cards sent each year are valentines.
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SAINT VALENTINE  \n \nSaint Valentine, according to romantic legend, was a kind-hearted Roman priest who married young couples against the wishes of Emperor Claudius II, and was beheaded for his deeds on the 14th of February. In truth, the exact origins and identity of St. Valentine are unclear. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, "At least three different Saint Valentines, all of them martyrs, are mentioned in the early martyrologies under the date of 14 February." Two of these men lived in the third century A.D., one being the bishop of Interamna (now Terni, Italy) and the other a priest of Rome. (Some speculate that these two figures were actually the same man.) Both seem to have been persecuted for their beliefs; the Roman priest reportedly was beaten and then beheaded on the orders of Emperor Claudius II, on or about the year 270. Legends vary on how the martyr's name became connected with romance: the date of his death may have become mingled with the feast of Lupercalia, a pagan festival of love, or with the ancient belief that birds first mate in the middle of February. In modern times Valentine's Day is a day of special romantic sentiment and gift-giving.
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We buy valentines day cards and flowers for our valentines (the commercial aspect) and we take them out or stay home for a romantic dinner (the romantic aspect).\n\nPS Did I forget to mention CHOCOLATE!!! :)
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Nothing special as my hubby and I don't believe we need a special day to show our love to one another. Or a commericial reason to buy something. It is actually our rule to not buy flowers during the months of Feb and May as they jump the price so much as to make it ridiculous..Why does everyone have to have a special day to say I Love You! Should not this be done daily in a relationship? This is a day to make those with no partner feel alone and I think it is so sad to see so many feel like that because so many fall for commericial bulllll.