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Valentine’s Day is a much-awaited time of the year most especially to celebrate romantic love, friendship and admiration. It comes every 14th day of February where people fondly celebrate it by sending messages of love and affection to partners, family and friends. Partners send Valentine’s Day cards and spend time together mesmerizing the moment with joy and excitement.
Valentine's Day is named after Saint Valentine, a Catholic priest who lived in Rome in the 3rd Century. There are many stories about St Valentine and over time these stories grew into the legend we know today.At the time of Valentine's life, many Romans were converting to Christianity, but the Emperor Claudius II was a pagan and created strict laws about what Christians were allowed to do. Claudius believed that Roman soldiers should be completely devoted to Rome and therefore passed a law preventing them from marrying. St Valentine began to bless the marriage of these soldiers in secret Christian ceremonies and this was the beginning of his reputation for believing in the importance of love. Eventually, Valentine was found out and jailed for his crimes against Claudius. While imprisoned, Valentine cared for his fellow prisoners and also his jailor's blind daughter. Legend has it that Valentine cured the girl's blindness and that his final act before being executed was to write her a love message signed ‘from your Valentine'. Valentine was executed on 14 February in the year 270.
Today, St. Valentine’s Day is not merely a day intended for romantic affection. It has also become now a part of family and friendly culture which has a good effect. It brings a manifestation of unspoken love to family members and friends by just simply, texting simple messages and giving even small yet meaningful tokens of love. In this most trying time brought by the pandemic, may love grow deeper and more sincere not only between lovers but so with all the people in sharing each other’s burden. May brotherly love rest in the hearts of all kinds of people to survive the challenges of life amidst the crisis we are going through. Let every day be like a Valentine’s Day to outweigh life’s difficulty with joy and victory.
