St. Valentines Day ❤︎- A Day of Decapitation & Animal Sacrifice?
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY DEVIANTS! ❤︎
During the tyrannical rule of "Claudius the Cruel", Rome was involved in many unpopular and bloody campaigns. The emperor maintained a strong army, but as unpopular as he was, he had a difficult time getting soldiers to join his military. Claudius believed that Roman men had such a strong attachment to their wives and families, that they were unwilling to join the army. This infuriated the bitter Emperor.
Claudius forbid all marriages and engagements. They were banned throughout Rome. Valentine, feeling this was a huge injustice of family, defied Claudius and continued to perform marriages in secrecy.
It didn't take Claudius the Cruel to catch wind Valentine’s actions, and when he was discovered, he was ordered to be put to death. Valentine was swiftly arrested and dragged before the Prefect of Rome. He was condemned to be beaten to death with clubs and then, decapitation.
According to Wikipedia- "Lupercalia was a very ancient, possibly pre-Roman pastoral festival, observed on February 15, to avert evil spirits and purify the city, releasing health and fertility. Lupercalia subsumed Februa, an earlier-origin spring cleansing ritual held on the same date, which gives the month of February (Februarius) its name.
There, on the Ides of February (in February the ides is the 13th), a goat and a dog were sacrificed, and salt mealcakes prepared by the Vestal Virgins were burnt."
During these festivities, the names of young women were placed in a box, and they were drawn by the men. In 496 AD, Pope Gelasius, to put an end to the Feast of Lupercalia, and he declared that February 14 be celebrated as "St Valentine’s Day".
Thus became the romantic holiday as we know it. February 14th, Valentine's became a holiday for professing your feelings to your lovers, exchanging messages of love, poems and simple gifts such as flowers and chocolate. We're just glad nobodies sacrificing goats or puppies...and no body loses a head over any marriages on this day! ❤︎
This day in history (or is it?) - February 14 around the year 278A.D., St. Valentine, a holy priest in Rome in the days of Emperor Claudius II, was executed via beheading. (He was not a deemed a Saint, until after his death.
During the tyrannical rule of "Claudius the Cruel", Rome was involved in many unpopular and bloody campaigns. The emperor maintained a strong army, but as unpopular as he was, he had a difficult time getting soldiers to join his military. Claudius believed that Roman men had such a strong attachment to their wives and families, that they were unwilling to join the army. This infuriated the bitter Emperor.
Claudius forbid all marriages and engagements. They were banned throughout Rome. Valentine, feeling this was a huge injustice of family, defied Claudius and continued to perform marriages in secrecy.
It didn't take Claudius the Cruel to catch wind Valentine’s actions, and when he was discovered, he was ordered to be put to death. Valentine was swiftly arrested and dragged before the Prefect of Rome. He was condemned to be beaten to death with clubs and then, decapitation.
The sentence was carried out on February 14, on or about the year 270.
Legends-
Legends-
While in jail, St. Valentine left a farewell note for the jailer’s daughter, who had become his friend. He signed it “From Your Valentine.”
The exact origins and identity of St. Valentine has remained unclear. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, “At least three different Saint Valentines, all of them martyrs, are mentioned in the early martyrologies under the date of 14 February.”
The exact origins and identity of St. Valentine has remained unclear. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, “At least three different Saint Valentines, all of them martyrs, are mentioned in the early martyrologies under the date of 14 February.”
One was a priest in Rome.
The second one was a bishop of Interamna (now Terni, Italy).
The third St. Valentine, a martyr in the Roman province of Africa.
The legends and names of each of the martyr, became connected with romance. The date of Valentine's death may have been inspired with the Pagan love festival "Feast of Lupercalia" (Feb. 15th).
The second one was a bishop of Interamna (now Terni, Italy).
The third St. Valentine, a martyr in the Roman province of Africa.
The legends and names of each of the martyr, became connected with romance. The date of Valentine's death may have been inspired with the Pagan love festival "Feast of Lupercalia" (Feb. 15th).
According to Wikipedia- "Lupercalia was a very ancient, possibly pre-Roman pastoral festival, observed on February 15, to avert evil spirits and purify the city, releasing health and fertility. Lupercalia subsumed Februa, an earlier-origin spring cleansing ritual held on the same date, which gives the month of February (Februarius) its name.
There, on the Ides of February (in February the ides is the 13th), a goat and a dog were sacrificed, and salt mealcakes prepared by the Vestal Virgins were burnt."
During these festivities, the names of young women were placed in a box, and they were drawn by the men. In 496 AD, Pope Gelasius, to put an end to the Feast of Lupercalia, and he declared that February 14 be celebrated as "St Valentine’s Day".
Thus became the romantic holiday as we know it. February 14th, Valentine's became a holiday for professing your feelings to your lovers, exchanging messages of love, poems and simple gifts such as flowers and chocolate. We're just glad nobodies sacrificing goats or puppies...and no body loses a head over any marriages on this day! ❤︎
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