Valentine's Day: why is it celebrated on February 14th

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Valentine's Day

-O Valentine's Day – is a festival of Christian origin that is celebrated every 14 February as a commemoration of the good works of Valentine's Day of Rome. They are related to the universal concept of love and affectivity. Today, Google devotes its tradition

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Originally from the Catholic Church as a counterweight to the pagan festivities of the Roman Empire, it is also one of the first festivals that allowed the expansion of Christianity through the Roman Euraphrasia. The party itself is known as an important cultural event of the religious by the grace of Valentine and the layman to relate to the feelings of love and friendship.

There is also a legend that founds holidays: it was said that Valentine married soldiers with their ladies in the cellars of the prisons of the Empire at the time when Christianity was forbidden to Claude II, who, conscious of marriage, promised the saint executed, he sent her to capture and took her with him to apologize. Claudio, under the influence of other senior officials, ordered him to behead himself.

It is written that the first Valentine's Day was celebrated on February 14, 494, the party was official in the Catholic Church until Pope Paul IV ceased to celebrate it and finally, in 1969, at the Second Vatican Council, the celebration of the liturgical calendar.

From the popular point of view, the San Valetin Festival is interpreted as an opportunity to celebrate love, beyond professed religion or belonging to another. The celebrations have varied for centuries, but the tradition of celebrating love is maintained.