Did Cupid Ever Strike Valentine?

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Once upon a time, around the 4th Century, there lived a man in the city of Rome. Ever loved by the people he was known as St. Valentinus. He had the heart to perform wedding for soldiers who were forbidden to marry and ministering Christians. Out raged by this act, Roman Emperor Claudius II had him arrested and sentenced to death. In audience with the emperor, Valentinus managed to Impress him with his words. Claudius attempted to talk Valentine into conversion of Roman Paganism and save his life, and Valentine refused and tried to get him to convert into Christianity instead. Because of this, he was executed. Legend says that before his execution he  performed a miracle, healing his jailer's blind daughter Julia (the jailer's Daughter and his forty-four member household of servants of the empire converted to Christianity thereafter.) He wrote her a letter signed " your Valentine" as farewell.
      As decades passed, folk tales evolved there came into being many such figures as Valentine. Such as Jack Valentine from 'Norfolk'. He would knock on rear doors of houses and leave presents & sweets for children. Ironically children were frightened by this mystical person. In Slovenia St.Valentine or Zdravko was known to be the saint of spring. February 14th was marked as the first day of spring.

     But Why was Valentines day Connected to love? was it ever relevant? Have you ever wondered why it was only on this day? Haven't you ever found it odd? well that's exactly why Bugle Bottle dived deep to find out why.

Valentine only merely supplied his name for this day. February 15th is said to be the day Eros and Psych of roman mythology wedded, united by Zeus. The months of January and February mark the holy marriage of Zeus and Hera, apart from that Valentine's day is often linked to Lupercalia, festival of young love, where men would randomly draw names of women to couple with them. the festival lasted 3 particular days, 13-15 of February.
 Our little Cupid is only Eros's roman name. He is represented as a winged child with a quiver of arrows. Work of poetry and prose let us believe that he would strike his arrow through hearts to get them to fall in love. Great dudes from the ages like our beloved Shakespeare,Chaucer, Spenser's etc adopted the concept and flew it across there scribes, and carved it into prose and poetry. 

Its pretty strange Feb 14th isn't the day when St. Valentinus was born, but in fact the day he died.And besides he was a "Saint".
The whole concept seems to have been a whisper game all along with no definite cause but just a day to celebrate. Man does one thing perfectly, Gossip, he isn't taught to do so, it's one of man's inborn capabilities. As years passed by word spread, Valentine's day or more like St Valentinus's death day became the day of love for people of the west and gradually the east too. This day is greatly criticized by many cultures though.

Over all Valentines day seems like a potluck of various signification and Bundles of roses and chocolates. RIP St.Valentinus.

What's Valentines day to you? 


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