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One such story: Part of Lupercalia [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the ancient pagan ceremony, was putting the names of the girls in the town in a box, and letting the boys draw one. Those couples would be paired off until the following year. When the Catholics changed the holiday, they substituted saints names for the girls names, in the hope that the participant would model his life after the saint whose name he drew.
Modern Valentine's Day Celebrations
In the late 18th century, it became popular to send love notes on February 14. They were so popular by the mid-19th century that these notes became mass produced. Hallmark introduced their first Valentine's card in 1913, which is when the modern Valentine's Day traditions truly began.
In 2009, Valentine's Day generated an estimated $14.7 billion (£9.2 billion) in retail sales in the United States and it has been estimated that over 1 billion cards will be sent in 2010.
Another story: St. Valentine apparently sent notes to the women he married, signed "from your Valentine. "There is also the story that St. Valentine has nothing to with the "lover" portion of the holiday. Some historians say that the word valentine may have been confused with the French word galantine, which means lover of women.
What is the history behind this holiday?
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The Ultimate Valentine's Day Gift
Valentine's Day Traditions in the United States
Valentine's Day Traditions in Canada
Valentine's Day Through History
In the year 1400, the High Court of Love opened in Paris on February 14. This court dealt with things such as marriage contracts, divorces, infidelity and domestic abuse. In 1601, Shakespeare wrote about St. Valentine's Day in Hamlet: “To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day,/All in the morning betime,/And I a maid at your window [link widoczny dla zalogowanych],/To be your Valentine.”
Valentine's Day dates back to the early Roman Catholic Church. When the Catholics were attempting to take over, they adopted traditional pagan holidays, hoping to retain new parishioners. The holiday that pagans celebrated in mid-winter (in what is now February) was called Lupercalia, the festival honoring the hunter Lupercus. The Catholics included this holiday in their calender and linked it to a saint.
There are various stories as to how St. Valentine became the patron saint of lovers, and how February 14 became the holiday of lovers.
The saint they chose was St. Valentine. St. Valentine's true history is unknown, but he is believed to have been a Roman priest who was martyred on, or around [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], February 14 around the year 200. He was killed for performing marriages that were outlawed by the emperor. These were, supposedly, couples of different statuses (a poor man and a rich woman, for example) or even interracial couples.
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