And if you wonder why to celebrate the day of lovers and this year, we present to you how it started to find a good reason.
This day got its name from a saint of the Catholics, although there are many stories about who he really was. According to the most popular version, Valentine was a priest from Rome in the third century AD. Emperor Claudius II had banned marriage because he believed that married men were worse soldiers. Valentine thought this was unfair and broke the rules, secretly marrying couples.
When Claudius discovered him, he put him in prison and sentenced him to death. There, Valentine fell in love with the jailer's daughter and on the day he was to die, February 14, he sent her a love letter signing off 'from your Valentine'.
Before Valentine, the Romans had a festival in mid-February celebrating the beginning of spring. During the festival, as part of the celebrations, boys would randomly draw girls' names from a box and spend the festival as couples, sometimes even getting married. How is this connected to Saint Valentine?
Because in the following years, the church wanted to convert this festival into a Christian one, they decided to dedicate it to the memory of Saint Valentine. The first Saint Valentine's Day was in the year 496!
