February 14, 2024

” Love is not words

Not flowers…   not days

Love is just loving. “

 – jotsna jari 

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My happiness begins with you. You are the reason  who I am. You are my Valentine.

Yes. Now this is Valentine’s Day. Love and Romance just begin. This wonderful Day is celebrated annually on February 14. All lovers express their affection with greetings and gifts. This beautiful Day has expanded to express affection between relatives and friends. This fantastic Day origins in Roman festival of Lupercalia, held in mid-February, The festival (which celebrated the coming of spring) included fertility rites and the pairing off of women with men by lottery. At the end of the 5 th century, Pope Gelasius।  forbid the celebration of Lupercalia and replaced it with St. Valentine’s Day. But Valentine’s Day did not come to be celebrated as a day of romance until 14th century. In 2020, National Retail Federation surveyed that Americans planned to spend $1.3 billion on Valentines. 

Happy Valentine’s Day 

🔺History :

Although there have been several Christian martyrs named Valentine, the day was probably named after a priest who was martyred around 270 CE by Emperor Claudius II Gothicus.  According to legend, the priest signed a letter “From your Valentine” to his jailer’s daughter, with whom he befriended.  He cured that girl from blindness.  This priest was St. Valentine of Turney, a bishop, for whom Valentine’s Day is named. Thst priest(St. Valentine) defied the emperor’s orders and secretly married couples to spare the husbands from war. It is for this reason that his feast day is associated with love.

Valentine’s Day as a lovers’ festival dates at least from the 14th century. 

                         The Parliament of Birds, 18th century oil painting by W. d. Hamilton 

🔺 St. Valentine :

                                          Saint Valentine 

Saint Valentine, (died 3rd century, Rome; feast day February 14), the name of one or two legendary Christian martyrs whose lives appear to be historically based.  Although the Roman Catholic Church continues to recognize Saint Valentine as a church saint, he was removed from the common Roman calendar in 1969 due to a lack of reliable information about him.  He is the patron saint of lovers, epileptics and beekeepers.

According to some accounts, Saint Valentine was a Roman priest and physician who was martyred during the persecution of Christians by Emperor Claudius II Gothicus around 270 AD.  He was buried in the Via Flaminia and Pope Julius I is said to have built a basilica over his summer.  Other accounts identify him as the bishop of Tarni in Italy, who was martyred, apparently also in Rome, and whose relics were later taken to Tarni.  It is possible that these are different versions of the same original account and refer to only one person.

                        A relic of Saint Valentine in the church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin, Rome

 The flower-crowned alleged skull of St. Valentine is exhibited in the Basilica of Santa Maria in Cosmedin, Rome. 

🔺 Celebrate Valentine’s Day :

Formal messages, or valentines, appeared in the 1500s, and commercially printed cards were used in the late 1700s.  The first commercial valentines were printed in the United States in the mid-1800s.  Valentines usually depict Cupid, the Roman god of love, with a heart, traditionally the seat of passion.  Because it was thought that the avian mating season began in mid-February, birds also became symbols of the day.  Traditional gifts include candy and flowers, especially red roses, a symbol of beauty and love.

Valentine’s Day is commonly celebrated by exchanging handmade or store-bought “Valentines” (greeting cards) or other tokens of affection like chocolates and flowers. In many schools, it has become customary for young students to bring in Valentines to swap with classmates. Traditions of the holiday’s observance can vary with the country.

Love birds celebrate by exchange of gifts of love. In social media use hashtag-

#happyvalentineday

#Valentineday

🔺 Valentine’s Day in Literature :

🔹 Geoffrey Chaucer’s poem The Parlement of Foules, which he wrote in 1380–90, first connected the day with romance. The earliest letters between lovers referring to St. Valentine’s Day began to appear soon after the poem’s publication in the 14th century.

Chaucer wrote :- 

“For this was on Saint Valentine’s Day
When every bird comes there to choose his match
Of every kind that men may think of
And that so huge a noise they began to make
That earth and air and tree and every lake
Was so full, that not easily was there space
For me to stand—so full was all the place.”

🔹 The earliest surviving valentine is a 15th-century rondeau written by Charles, Duke of Orléans to his wife, which commences.

 “Je suis desja d’amour tanné

 Ma tres doulce Valentinée…”

 — Charles d’Orléans, Rondeau VI, lines 1–2

🔹 Valentine’s Day is mentioned ruefully by Ophelia in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet (1600–1601):

 “To-morrow is Saint Valentine’s day,

 All in the morning betime,

 And I a maid at your window,

 To be your Valentine.

 Then up he rose, and donn’d his clothes,

 And dupp’d the chamber-door;

 Let in the maid, that out a maid

 Never departed more.”

 — William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 5

🔹 The modern cliché Valentine’s Day poem can be found in Gammer Gurton’s Garland (1784), a collection of English nursery rhymes published in London by Joseph Johnson:

 “The rose is red, the violet’s blue,

 The honey’s sweet, and so are you.

 Thou art my love and I am thine;

 I drew thee to my Valentine:

 The lot was cast and then I drew,

 And Fortune said it shou’d be you.”

🔹 Valentine’s Poem by jotsna jari :-

All Mighty God

spread the love

Man & woman carry

this moment

Oh ! my bae

Oh ! my bae

calling together.

Shake their hearts

Love at first sight

can’t make here & there

Again alive love

make a new world

build a family

Every man

Every woman

want a lot of love

It’s true

It’s absolutely Valentine Day. 

🔺 Valentine’s day Quotes :

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu

“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.” – Paulo Coelho

“Love is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that’s what you’ve given me. That’s what I’d hoped to give you forever.” – Nicholas Sparks

“I love you not only for what you are but for what I am when I am with you.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning 

“Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.” — Audre Lorde.

 “Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.” — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

 “One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.” — Sophocles.

FAQs :  Valentine’s Day 2024

1.  What is Valentine’s Day?

Ans:-  Valentine’s Day is a holiday when lovers express their affection with greetings and gifts. It is also called St. Valentine’s Day. The holiday has expanded to express affection between relatives and friends.

2.  When is Valentine’s Day?

Ans:-  Valentine’s Day is celebrated annually on February 14.

3.  Who is Valentine’s Day named for?

Ans:-  Although there were several Christian martyrs named Valentine, Valentine’s Day may have taken its name from a priest who was martyred about 270 CE by the Roman emperor Claudius II Gothicus. Other accounts hold that it was St. Valentine of Terni, a bishop, for whom the holiday was named, though it is possible that the two saints were actually one person.

4.  Where is Valentine’s Day celebrated?

Ans:-  Valentine’s Day is popular in the United States as well as in Britain, Canada, and Australia, and it is also celebrated in other countries, including Argentina, France, Mexico, and South Korea. In the Philippines, it is the most common wedding anniversary.

5.  From when Valentine’s Day is lovers’ festival dates ? 

Ans:-  Valentine’s Day as a lovers’ festival dates at least from the 14th century.

6.  What is a good quote for Valentine’s Day?

Ans:-  “I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect

.” “The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” “Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.”

7.  What is the best romantic Valentine quotes?

Ans:-  “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.” “True love stories never have endings.” “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” “There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”

8. What is the best valentine message?

Ans:-  Wishing you a beautiful day filled with all the love and happiness you deserve

. You’re the only person I send heart eye emojis to. Valentine, you take my breath away, every single day. It’s just one day in the year, but you should know that I love you every day and every moment.Take my love on this beautiful occasion!

9.  What are 5 motivational quotes?

Ans:-  “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” ―Theodore Roosevelt.

‘It’s never too late to be what you might’ve been.” ―George Eliot.

“If you can dream it, you can do it.” ―Walt Disney.

“Trust yourself that you can do it and get it.” ―Baz Luhrmann.

10.  What is true love short line?

Ans:-  True love – that is, deep, abiding love that is impervious to emotional whims or fancy

 – is a choice. It’s a constant commitment to a person regardless of the present circumstances. True love lasts forever. 

11.  What is the real meaning of Valentine?

Ans:-  The name Valentine comes from a Latin word meaning “strength.”

 There are many legends about it, but it’s ultimately unclear how Valentine’s Day became associated with the tradition of exchanging the affectionate gifts and love notes that we call valentines.

12.  Who is called Valentine?

Ans:-  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.

13.  Is Valentine only for lovers?

Ans:-  In fact, it can be celebrated by anyone who wants to express their affection for someone special, regardless of their relationship status. Valentine’s Day is a day for celebrating love, not just romantic love between couples. 

    “Come my moon   come to me     

     No time to play hide & seek

     Paint the color of twilight on ourselves

     We touch the lips.”

❤️