08 Feb 2015

30+ Best Collection Of Valentine Day eCards

Posted in Quotes By On February 8, 2015

Saint Valentine’s Day is also known as Valentine’s Day and the Feast of Saint Valentine is the holiday observed on February 14 each year. It is celebrated in the many countries around a world although it is not the holiday in most of them.
Valentine’s Day start as the liturgical celebration one or more early Christian saints name as the Valentinus. Several martyrdom stories are invented for the various Valentines that belonged to February 14 or added to later martyrologies. The popular hagiographical account of the Saint Valentine of Rome states that he was imprisoned for performing wedding for the soldiers who are forbidden to marry or for ministering to Christians who were persecuted under a Roman Empire. According to a legend during his imprisonment he healed a daughter of jailer Asterius . An embellishment to this story states that before the execution he wrote her the letter signed your valentine as the farewell. Now a days Saint Valentine Day is the official feast in Anglican communion as well as in a Lutheran Church. A eastern orthodox Church also celebrates the Saint Valentine’s Day albeit on the July 6 or July 30 and the former date in honor of a Rome Presbyter saint Valentine or the latter date in the honor of Hieromartyr Valentine a Bishop of Interamna . In Brazil the Dia de Sao Valentim is recognized on June 12.
A day was the first associated with a romantic love in a circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in a High Middle Ages when the tradition of courtly love flourished . In a 18th Century England it evolved into the occasion in which the lovers as the romantic symbol or an invitation to unlock a give heart as well as to the children in order to ward off Valentine’s Malady. Valentine’s day is the symbol that are used today to include the heart shaped outline ,doves or a figure of a winged Cupid. Since a 19th century handwritten valentines have given to mass produced greeting card.