Today is Valentine's Day: why are we celebrating Valentine's Day?

Like every allegorical date, its origin has several theories. Some say this day is celebrated because in the Nordic countries, during This date is paired and matched birds. That's why it's seen as a time of love and creation.

Others relate it to a christianized feast of paganism, because in Rome the god of love, Eros, was reveredand that the Romans called Cupid. At that time, offerings were made to this God to be able to find a love.

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We know that it began to spread in 1840, when Esther A. Howland started selling in English-speaking America (Canada and the United States without Hawaii) the first postcards of Valentine's Day, which were known as Valentine's Day. In these cards were the hearts and the most popular character of the day: Cupid

The feast of St. Valentine was declared around the year 498 by Pope Gelasius I The saint was a Roman doctor who became a priest and married soldiers although it was forbidden by the emperor Claudio "The Gothic", who badured that it was something incompatible with the arms race. For this reason, he ordered that he be beheaded in the year 270.