Google celebrates Valentine's Day with an animated doodle

Google celebrates Valentine's Day with a romantic doodle. Just press the center of the graph to activate the animation.

In doing so, you will see how the initial drawing is mutating to form different hearts. With this type of interactive map, the search engine remembers this Valentine's Day, an opportunity to celebrate love in all its forms.

The origin of this celebration is located in Rome, in the year 270 of our era. Valentine, a Christian priest, married couples in the prisons of the empire. At that time, Christianity was banned by the then Emperor, Claudius II.

That's why the lovers turned to him and got married in secret. When the emperor heard of this, he ordered him to be captured and beheaded.

When he was in jail, he met Julia, the daughter of a blind birth officer. Valentine prayed for the girl to regain her sight.

On February 14, while he was about to be executed, the priest handed him a piece of paper to read. Julia miraculously recovered her vision and the message in this journal was the first thing she read in her life. The message bore the signature "your valentine".