What is Valentine's Day and Why it is celebrated?

When is Valentine's day celebrated?

Valentine's day is celebrated at every 14th february of the year.It is a prestigious day for lovers.On this day,Lovers who are in love of each other,i.e. boys and girls give gifts to one another.They surprise them on valentines day by their awesome ideas.Further valentines day is  celebrated by giving cards,Greetings and wishes.While people who are married also plan surprise trips for their love .Overall this valentines dayis an awesome event of expressing passionate love for the partner.

St. Valentine's Day started as a ritualistic festival one or all the more early Christian saints named Valentinus. Several suffering stories were concocted for the various Valentines that had a place with February 14, and added to later martyrologies.A prevalent hagiographical record of Saint Valentine of Rome states that he was imprisoned for performing weddings for soldiers who were taboo to wed and for ministering to Christians, who were persecuted under the Roman Empire. As indicated by legend, amid his imprisonment, he recuperated the girl of his guard, Asterius. An embellishment to this story states that before his execution he kept in touch with her a letter signed "Your Valentine" as a farewell. Today, Saint Valentine's Day is an authority feast day in the Anglican Communion, as well as in the Lutheran Church.The Eastern Orthodox Church also celebrates Saint Valentine's Day, though on July 6 and July 30, the previous date to pay tribute to the Roman presbyter Saint Valentine, and the last date out of appreciation for Hieromartyr Valentine, the Bishop of Interamna (advanced Terni). In Brazil, the Dia de São Valentim is perceived on June 12. 

The day was first associated with sentimental love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the custom of elegant affection flourished. In eighteenth century England, it advanced into an occasion in which lovers expressed their adoration for one another by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending welcome cards (known as "valentines"). In Europe, Saint Valentine's Keys are given to lovers "as a sentimental symbol and a welcome to open the supplier's heart", as well as to youngsters, with a specific end goal to avoid Saint Valentine's Malady.Valentine's Day symbols that are used today incorporate the heart-shaped layout, doves, and the figure of the winged Cupid. Since the nineteenth century, transcribed valentines have offered approach to mass-delivered welcome cards.

Historical facts 

Numerous early Christian martyrs were named Valentine. The Valentines respected on February 14 are Valentine of Rome (Valentinus presb. m. Romae) and Valentine of Terni (Valentinus ep. Interamnensis m. Romae).Valentine of Rome was a priest in Rome who was martyred about AD 496 and was covered on the Via Flaminia. The relics of Saint Valentine were kept in the Church and Catacombs of San Valentino in Rome, which "remained a vital traveler site all through the Middle Ages until the relics of St. Valentine were transferred to the congregation of Santa Prassede amid the pontificate of Nicholas Iv". The blossom delegated skullof Saint Valentine is displayed in the Basilica of Santa Maria in Cosmedin, Rome. Different relics are found at Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church in Dublin, Ireland.Valentine of Terni got to be bishop of Interamna (current Terni) about AD 197 and is said to have been martyred amid the persecution under Emperor Aurelian. He is also covered on the Via Flaminia, however in an alternate area than Valentine of Rome. His relics are at the Basilica of Saint Valentine in Terni (Basilica di San Valentino). Jack B. Oruch states that "abstracts of the acts of the two saints were in about every congregation and monastery of Europe."The Catholic Encyclopedia also speaks of a third saint named Valentine who was specified in right on time martyrologies under date of February 14. He was martyred in Africa with various companions, yet nothing more is thought about him.Saint Valentine's head was preserved in the nunnery of New Minster, Winchester, and venerated.

February 14 is praised as St. Valentine's Day in various Christian denominations; it has, for instance, the rank of "recognition" in the timetable of saints in the Anglican Communion.also, the feast day of Saint Valentine is also given in the logbook of saints of the Lutheran Church.However, in the 1969 revision of the Roman Catholic Calendar of Saints, the feast day of Saint Valentine on February 14 was expelled from the General Roman Calendar and consigned to specific (neighborhood or even national) calendars for the accompanying reason: "However the commemoration of Saint Valentine is aged, it is left to specific calendars, since, separated from his name, nothing is known of Saint Valentine with the exception of that he was covered on the Via Flaminia on February 14." The feast day is still celebrated in Balzan (Malta) where relics of the saint are guaranteed to be found, furthermore all through the world by Traditionalist Catholics who take after the more established, presecond Vatican Council schedule. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, St. Valentine's Day is commended on July 6, in which Saint Valentine, the Roman presbyter, is regarded; besides, the Eastern Orthodox Church obsesrves the feast of Hieromartyr Valentine, Bishop of Interamna, on July 30. 

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