Valentine’s Day is celebrated on February 14. In Eastern Europe, Valentine’s Day as a celebration became widespread only in the last decade.
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Valentine’s Day all blshe and more gaining its strength and popularity, mostly among young people. Celebrate the holiday as a family reunion, and on youth gatherings and discos, but the same in all cases remains a ritual presentation of “valentines.”
In medieval England, was popular with a beautiful custom. Its main participants were romantic young man. Together, they wrote on pieces of parchment names available in the district of girls, gathered notes in his cap, and then draw lots, picking his way to Valentin for the coming year.
This will agree, very romantic tradition. Starting from February 14, Valentine’s Day, the young man a year away should compose his girlfriend sent him a Valentine’s sonnets, play the lute, and accompanied her everywhere, giving her welcome at every opportunity.
The origin of the holiday recounts a legend …
Rome waged fierce wars of conquest, and much of the population of the empire were soldiers who participated in the long grueling hikes. Claudius forbade soldiers to marry because a man tied to hearth and home, could not fully devote themselves to military service. This decree became enamored by this curse. Church priests, if they got married secretly in love, threatened terrible punishment.
Despite that, among the clergy still there was a man whose heart could not resist the mental anguish of lovers. The priest Valentine secretly crowned couples and love hearts forever connected.
But any covert actions, no matter how good they are, sooner or later become apparent, and soon the Emperor proznavshy on felony Valentine, the priest ordered to catch and punish.
How reliable the legend, to judge you. But from that time to commemorate the great sacrifice in the name of love all the Roman youth began to celebrate this day, games, fortune telling and games.
When Christianity was introduced, almost all the pagan festivals were canceled, but Valentine’s Day has a special honorary status. The custom of celebrating Valentine’s Day has spread all over the world, and each country has tried to make in this tradition that some his own, national.